[GeeTwo]

I am all in favor of being able to compete in a district situation - almost three times as many matches for the same dollar cost, and only a slight increase in travel cost.

That said, I AM worried about losing the inspiration provided at Bayou Regional in recent years by many great teams from Texas, California, Florida, and so forth, who will be much less likely to travel to Louisiana and Mississippi (Slidell is practically on the border; half of our mentors, including me, work in MS) as TX, CA, and FL transition to districts over the next few years.

I'd like to see the district system tweaked in such a way as to continue to encourage those high-inspiration teams to travel; in the long run, it's probably good for them, and it's definitely good for us in the less-tech-heavy parts of the country and world.