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Re: Districts 2017

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Originally Posted by BeardyMentor View Post
I have an only somewhat related question. How do we incorporate teams from outside of the US when there are only very few regional events remaining in the US? Right now, teams from Europe, Mexico, China etc typically travel to the US for at least one event when there are not enough teams in their area to support a regional event or district. If there are only a handful of regional events left in the US, they would either need to organize their own event and hope to attract enough teams to travel to them or swamp the limited events remaining in the US.

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Looking at some of the regions around the US and the world, it's likely that we will not have full district coverage for a while. Excluding places like Minnesota/California/Texas (where districts should be happening but for some reason aren't), there are plenty of areas where the team density/raw number of teams isn't enough to warrant a district format. Take Quebec for example. Are there enough teams to support a regional? Yeah, sure. They're fine doing that right now. But are there enough teams to start the district model next year? Probably not. Western Canada, Alabama, and Louisiana come to mind in a similar category.

Eventually, we will probably get to the point where most of the US and Canada (even Australia, Israel, and Mexico, maybe) are in districts. But by then there might be Amsterdam, Beijing, Paris, Rio, etc. hosting events.

I'm not saying that it will be easy on international teams; it hasn't, and likely won't be for at least a few more years. But losing event coverage probably isn't (or shouldn't be) one of the bigger concerns.
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