Frank Answers Fridays: Expanded Championship Qualification

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by brennonbrimhall

They are. For areas with many teams/events per area (high-density), districts make sense. There are some areas, though, where districts still don't make sense (to me, at least). New York, is one of those areas -- teams are not uniformly distributed throughout the state, and are more or less are clustered into NYC, Long Island, Rochester, Buffalo, or the Capital Region (Albany/Tech Valley).

It will be interesting to see what they end up doing. One of the thoughts that I've had is to take the Capital Region teams and roll them into NE, and the NYC and Long Island Teams into MAR, which actually makes more geographic sense than the entirety of NY state becoming a district (could you imagine the travel times for Buffalo/Rochester teams to go to a DCMP that could be as far as NYC?).

This is becoming a pretty tired refrain. Michigan is not evenly distributed. There are portions of MAR that lack team density. PNW is massive for the quantity of teams in contains. These are challenges, yes, but they are quite easy to surpass in the grand scheme of things. Some teams will definitely have more travel costs, but when you compete two or three times instead of just once, travel costs are going to rise in any system. The point is to allow teams more options than just going to their one local regional (and plenty of teams don't even have a local regional).