Some of us 229 mentors were curious about how different the event availability would look if districts were open, so we decided to look it up and sort all events by driving distance from Potsdam. Here are the results
http://m.imgur.com/lX2A9bN (couldn't figure out pictures on CD so I just put it on imgur). As you can see while the top few that are closest to us are regionals, if we can't get two out of those four, we have to travel a considerable distance. The three nearby district take away many potential areas (NE and Ontario are basically the same if you include the border crossing). Since we are somewhat limited to what weeks we would prefer to compete due to school, finding two events that work well for us is going to be very tough to do.