Michigan, be honest, how is the district model?

[Lil' Lavery]

Unfortunately I keep missing the MAR forums/webinars due to scheduling issues. I hope to ask some questions about the system at one of them soon.


I have a pretty fundamental question that I'm not sure has been asked. In the short-term, could we simply relocate one (or both) of the area regionals to one of the alternate venues being proposed as district sites? Namely Philadelphia, which has usually been a ~40-45 team event anyway and had higher costs than Trenton. There were a number of proposed venues in the Philadelphia suburbs, why not just have a "traditional" regional at one of those?

That buys another year to continue planning and seek feedback from teams in order to make sure a district model is executed properly for this region.

Additionally, what about things like making our current regionals "bag'n'tag" events? Or running more total matches at our smaller events? The 44 team Philadelphia regional in 2010 only ran 66 total matches, thus why teams only had 9 qualifying matches. Michigan districts only have a few less teams, but get 12 qualifying matches per team by running around 80 matches. A simple increase in the amount of matches we run at our events can bring up the ROI numbers people love so much.