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Originally Posted by EricH
However, at least a couple of people have said that California is prime for the next part of the rollout. Sorry, but it isn't. There are 2 main clusters of teams: Silicon Valley-Sacramento and Los Angeles-San Diego. Each has 2 regionals at this time, and could support probably 4-5 districts. Those aren't the problem areas.
The problem areas are the central coast, the Central Valley, the northern part of the state, and the desert area between CA and NV. The central coast supports about 2-3 good teams and no other teams. The Central Valley does about the same. I'm not sure how many teams are in the large northern area of the state, but I'm fairly sure there aren't many. There are ways to deal with this, including starting more teams in those areas, but the fact remains that until a district gets into those areas, those teams have to travel several hours and stay overnight for each and every event, even their "home" events.
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I too agree that CA can easily support 4-6 district events. 2 in NorCal, 2 in SoCal and 1-2 in between. Those teams in between may have to travel 4-6 hours to go to a district event will still find it more cost effective than traveling just as far to attend a regional event. One less day in a hotel and the money saved by the lower reg fee.
Also as a planning committee volunteer in Davis, we continue to struggle to get sponsorship money for that event, and next year will even be more difficult. Regionals cost upwards to $200k, district events can be held for considerably less. To me, the only question is where should the CA State Championship be held? Any SoCal/NorCal debators?