[EricH]

Jon is right. The biggest difference between an 8-play event like MN and L.A. run and a 12-play event in the district systems is NOT number of people.

Well... it is. Just not the people you were asking about.

How is it that Los Angeles runs a 8-play event, San Diego runs something like 8-9 plays, but Ventura and O.C. run 12-play events with the same teams in the area and similar staffs? Simple, really. L.A. and S.D. are 66 and 56 teams, respectively (or give-or-take that many), while the other two are 40-42 team events. 10-20 fewer teams results in more plays per team in the same time.

So, the best way to get more plays is to convince all the other teams in your area to NOT go to your event, because then you get more plays. The problem then becomes that they've got no events to go to, so they try to convince you to do the same thing... Or you could just push for more small events (or just plain more events, period, which would probably be better in the long haul).