2014 Lessons Learned: The Negative

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by coalhot

After volunteering at the Greater Pittsburgh regional this year, I can say that I truly miss the days of regionals in the MAR area. You got a full day to work out issues, get inspected, play real matches that are being reffed as they will be for the rest of the event. And if the practice day is run correctly, each team gets ~8 matches to play in.

This also leads me to question why the MAR area needs the district system. This may be a topic for another thread, and has probably been beaten to death already; but seeing that there are 110 team in MAR, with 55 making it to MAR championships (and I don't recall there being that much growth in rookie teams this past year), why not do another regional into the pot that used to be there already? (Philadelphia and Trenton)

$ee, there are plenty of rea$on$ a$ to why the di$trict $y$tem i$ better for the MAR region.


Also more play/many (myself included) love that a district system drastically "seasonizes" FIRST.