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Originally Posted by Applepwns
I like how the new structure makes it cheaper for teams with hotel fee's and traveling costs, ...
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That would depend on exactly where in MI you are located, correct? I would imagine some upper peninsula teams may incur quite a travel expense getting to their second event in-state.
This is one of the reasons why I hope and pray that my state, PA, does not go the district route any time in the near future. With a big gap in the middle of our state, we'd be straining our relatively young teams in Pittsburgh and really hamstringing many of our veterans in the Philadelphia region who have been great supporters of closer regionals (than Pittsburgh) in other states. We simply have no volunteer or team base in the middle third of the state.
If the district model works in MI, for MI, without stretching volunteers, schools, or resources too far, then great for MI. However, I will continue to wonder what other states this model could logically work in. Unless you have a somewhat even distribution of teams and volunteers throughout the entire state, it's hard to imagine that you'd be doing much good for all of the effort, but I've been wrong many times before.