Indiana going to Districts for 2015

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

While good for Indiana, this is yet another district area surrounding Ohio that permits flow of district teams into our state while locking our state's teams out from competing at events formerly open to them.

Ohio is in the initial stages of organizing for a district push, but in the meantime, Ohio teams are going to feel even more pressure from insurgent district teams from MAR, MI, NE, and now Indiana who feel like taking some of their extra cash and throwing it at extra chances to qualify for the CMP at Ohio regionals. Ohio teams are finding it increasingly difficult to find reciprocal opportunities via the attendance of reasonably close out of state regionals. I am not a fan of this "poaching" activity and would like to see additional protections installed to ensure that in state teams and other non-district teams get the first crack at attending Ohio events - perhaps require district teams to wait until open registration before being permitted to sign up for non-district events. I seem to recall some kind of restriction being in place last season but am not certain of how extensive it was.

District teams can't register until Open Registration as per 2014 rules. I'm not sure what other kind of protection you want. The teams from MAR who can afford regionals have to work just as hard as you do to find other events to attend.