I have made a map of the locations of the teams that attended/will be attending New York's two "upstate" regionals, FLR and Tech Valley.
https://batchgeo.com/map/821f21483e1...d991dcdc725113
The map appears to show that most of the teams attending are located in the Albany and Rochester areas, suggesting that Syracuse would actually be a central location for DCMP if Upstate were its own district.
Of course, I know nothing about the challenges of regional/district organization. I merely wanted to lend some data to the discussion.