Ohio going to Districts?

[Alex2614]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

I don't understand. Who would be asked to pay twice as much, and why?

Districts are cheaper than regionals. Correct me if I'm wrong, but district event registration gets you 2 events and it is still cheaper/se cost as just one regional. If areas are left out of districts, this creates an unfair disadvantage to those left out. Then you add travel time, as EricH said above. I always use the example of WV. If everyone around us goes districts, and leaves us out, where are we going to go? Oh yeah, WV only has 4 teams, they can't support districts! Well we also can't support traveling to Montana paying the ridiculous regional registration fees AND all the travel costs only to get much fewer matches than the other teams ( scenario assuming 90% district saturation).

So include these teams in adjoining districts. I'm sure they'd rather travel the extra hours so they can get the more playing time and cost benefits that districts bring. This is why districts WILL be everywhere. If not, we are going to further alienate our rural teams and make it even harder to get new teams in these areas started up.

I.e. Giving a cost break and allowing more playing time for your money only to teams in FIRST-saturated/urban areas is an unsustainable model. Even if it means a team needs to travel for 6 hours or more to get to a district event, they should do it instead of being stuck with only one big expensive event 10 hours away.