Frank Answers Fridays: Expanded Championship Qualification

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by Nyxyxylyth

The new districts in Michigan helped spread things out a bit, but for lots of teams in the southeast, a one hour drive will get you to eight districts or even MSC. It's a scouting frenzy!

I am allllll sorts of jealous.

For my team more-or-less in the center (edit:: population center of teams) of MAR, one hour gets us to one of our districts. Two hours gets us to most of the events, but still not the the DCMP. (With new events for 2015, we should be able to get to two districts within an hour's drive. But it's taken a lot of pushing with MAR to recognize that need for central NJ.)

Compounded with our silly school rules about travel distance/hotel necessity, it makes districts just as expensive (if not more) than regional travel. Just a personal case, as from my understanding most other teams don't have this problem. We're just unlucky with the school rules we're given to deal with.