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Originally Posted by ahartnet
Like you stated, the thing that will be interesting to me about Texas districts is there's a significant # of teams that don't have more than 1 event (currently) within 300 miles of them, and some of those don't have any event within 300 miles. If the normal district rules apply, forcing those teams to do two competitions in Texas could place a significant burden on them, or force something like Lubbock to host 2 district events back to back with many of the teams competing in both against a roster of teams that is mostly the same, or some other solution I have not heard of/thought of. There's a LOT of Texas that is not within a couple hours drive of San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, or Houston.
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Texas had 136 teams in 2015 according to
this, so there will probably be around 7 events minimum (2 plays per team at 40 team events comes out to 6.8 events needed), though there will probably be several more, maybe like 10 (this is a complete guess), in actuality. According to TBA there were 4 events in Texas this year, so there will likely be twice or more as many events in Texas on the district model compared to the regional model. While I am sure some teams will have a larger travel burden because of districts, many teams will probably end up with more events close to them than they currently have.
Basically, I am trying to say that the change in travel burden will, at a minimum, probably not be quite as bad as you think, if not make things easier for a lot of teams.