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Re: Ontario Moving to District Model in 2017
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Originally Posted by Mark Sheridan
I am not sure why FIRST is obsessed with geographic boarders.
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I couldn't agree more. As a member of MAR, the one district with a non-state-line boundary, I've seen that logically grouping teams can be much more effective than state lines. For the most part, New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania form a pretty continuous cluster of teams that doesn't really leave out any nearby groupings of teams (aside from NYC, which makes more sense to be a separate district due to the transportation challenges presented to NYC teams). The western boundary of MAR is not a state line, but it's a line that makes sense.
(And I'd hate to play without our Pennsylvania friends.)
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