Regional Space Shortage

[EricH]

Originally Posted by lynca

The Registration 2014 Thread is highlighting a major problem with Regionals this year.

We have too many teams who want to attend multiple events. The spots for those teams are limited

Anyone have any ideas on how to handle the problem?

Might free up a few spots by stopping district teams from playing in regionals. [puts on flame suit] Probably won't be enough, though--that tends to be on the order of 10-20/year. Ditto for teams going for >2 events, which is an even smaller number.

Larger-capacity regionals are an option, though not an attractive one due to higher costs to local committees (bigger venue being the biggest cost I can think of), and reduced plays for attendees.

That leaves one option--two, let's say. One is, obviously, more offseasons in the spring and summer--more plays, but they don't count towards official stuff. The other? MORE regionals (or, more likely, MORE DISTRICTS). Longer-term solution, mind you, and more volunteers would be needed for those more regionals, but that's about the best way I can think of opening up space.


The big problem is that the only one that will really work right now is larger capacity + restrictions on teams playing outside certain areas--and for the latter, it's probably too late anyway. Larger capacity... there aren't a lot of venues that could squeeze in extra teams, even by dropping the pit size to the minimum 8'x8'.