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Originally Posted by IKE
With so many events around the states, Most teams (not all, but most) have 2 events within a reasonable daily drive. This reduces hotel, bus, and food related travel fees for the team.
While not directly apples to apples, say you have 20 students staying 4 to a room Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night for an event at $100/room. This is 5 rooms x 4 nights or $2K just for the student rooms.
Having events within driving distance allows for teams to dramatically reduce that portion of their budget, and still have a 2 event season (minimum).
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That all makes sense, but I'm not sure how big of an effect it has.
Let's compare Michigan with other states.
http://i.imgur.com/hnUpuX2.png?1
As you can see California and Michigan were neck and neck until 2014, when the State grants kicked in. The growth spurt didn't begin in 2009 with the introduction of districts.
You can also see that this incredible growth didn't appear in NJ and PA, where districts were implemented in 2012.