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Re: Ohio going to Districts?

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Originally Posted by Alex2614 View Post
Hopefully they would include West Virginia and even western PA. With everyone around us speculating about going to districts, if nobody includes us that isolates us from any close events.

Out of curiosity, where would those teams compete if everyone around them is in a district format? Wouldn't not including them make it even more difficult for those teams than it already is? These teams should be included in a nearby district instead of being forced into Canada or a regional 10 hours away. It only further alienates them than they already are.
With the expansion of the district model to new areas, you create the issue of "non-district" or regional teams becoming more and more isolated and limited in the events that those teams can compete at. For example, 1507 commonly competes in Ohio for our travel regional. If Ohio (and possibly western PA) goes to districts next season, that cuts our list of reasonable locations in half.

Hopefully, this new "mini-district" concept that Indiana is piloting this year is part of the solution to this issue. Hopefully some of these lesser populated areas that are being sectioned off by larger districts can move to the district model as well.

It seems like a lot of regions are about to make the transition to districts in the next year or two. I'm not sure what the plans are for the New York/Finger Lakes region as far as a conversion to districts (I herd it is rumored for 2016). Until we convert, we are going to continually be more and more limited in the number of events we can compete in
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