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Originally Posted by Koko Ed
When I talked to Frank a couple of years ago at Tech Valley he admitted that there are places that just cannot go district because of the lack of teams/mentors/volunteers. There are also places that have a high number of team/mentor/volunteers that are struggling to convert to districts for varying reason. Right now FIRST is split into two worlds and it looks like it'll be that way forever due to geographical barriers that cannot be solved.
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Ultimately, the direction I feel FIRST as a whole eventually has to go in is to have multi-tiered competition for all styles of play. Qualifying Events, Region Championships, and World Championship(s) everywhere, no borders, some method to allow teams that can only do 1 Qualifying event to still participate, etc. What are we going to do when we have less than a dozen regionals left, scattered in tiny pockets in random places around the country? At some point (not soon) the change has to sweep through every region, ready or not.