Current Districts Map. Who is next?

[SpaceBiz]

I couldn't find an image showing the current districts on a us map. So I made one.

Hopefully people can use this to not only speculate which states switch over to districts for 2017, but the new boundaries for the districts.

[EricH]

No image for me (using Chrome).

[SpaceBiz]

Originally Posted by EricH

No image for me (using Chrome).

Does this work?

[GeeTwo]

Thanks, I can see the map in post 3, but not post 1.

[EricH]

Yep, that works.

But Alaska should be red, as I've heard from various CD denizens that AK will be in PNW this next year.


And the other thought I've been having: Poor SC. Surrounded by districts...But I think they'll be all right as long as Smoky and the Forida regionals are still around.

[SpaceBiz]

Fixed Alaska in both links above. They are going to have a long drive to PNW champs.

[page2067]

Only showing NA, Ontario is ripe for district, They already have many regionals that are sized almost at the district level size (40) but paying for 2 regionals.

Districts are great, everyone should get some. Jump in, the water is good.

Once New York figures things out we can have a large connected region in the east.

[Brian Maher]

Originally Posted by page2067

Only showing NA

This part of your comment got me thinking and made me realize that Israel might make for a good district. With 55 teams at the Israel Regional (all of which are Israeli), Israel is just the right size for an Indiana style small district. This would give all the Israeli teams the chance to compete at two events, which few get a chance to. Some teams would get a third or fourth event without traveling internationally.

Israel is a small dense cluster of teams, far from any other team density. It seems like a perfect district candidate.

[Alex Webber]

I would personally like to see a Midwest District,

• Kansas
• Oklahoma
• Texas
• Nebraska (no teams yet)
• South Dakota
• North Dakota
• Colorado
• Missouri

But that might be a huge district.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Alex Webber

I would personally like to see a Midwest District,

• Kansas
• Oklahoma
• Texas
• Nebraska (no teams yet)
• South Dakota
• North Dakota
• Colorado
• Missouri

But that might be a huge district.

Way too big, by a factor of a lot. BTW, if Colorado is included you'll need to include Wyoming and at least part of Montana as that's the current closest event to teams in that area.

You're probably better off with "Northern Midwest", "Texas" (who, I might add, is beginning to look seriously at districts from some CD posts this year), and "everybody else". "Northern Midwest" would be the Dakotas, Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska if they form any teams. (There's a natural split point in the Dakotas that might send some portions of those two states to join MN/WI/IA if those three went district, but that's outside the scope of this discussion.) "Everybody else" takes OK, KS, and MO and possibly adds in Arkansas for the district zone.


The reason I say it's way too big: Can you really imagine driving for TWO DAYS to get not quite all the way across ONE district? Neither can I. And I know from experience that it's a two-day drive from the teams in South Dakota to Fort Worth, Texas. Not that anybody would do that for districts, you understand, but just the sheer size of the proposition.

[Jay O'Donnell]

Ontario, Texas, Minnesota, Florida, and California make sense to me.

[TDav540]

Originally Posted by Jay O'Donnell

Ontario, Texas, Minnesota, Florida, and California make sense to me.

I think we'll need to wait for more a FRC presence in Quebec/Eastern Canada first. The Eastern Ontario event is well traveled to by Montreal teams, and they'll only have one event that can qualify them for Worlds (because NE is a district as well). If they get a second regional, then Ontario should immediately move to districts.

Florida and Minnesota both make sense, and I'm sure we'll see those two move in the next two years. California makes the most sense split into Northern and Southern. Someone more familiar with the size and distribution of Texas teams should comment on Texas, I don't know enough about the region.

Just my opinions.

[dodar]

Originally Posted by TDav540

I think we'll need to wait for more a FRC presence in Quebec/Eastern Canada first. The Eastern Ontario event is well traveled to by Montreal teams, and they'll only have one event that can qualify them for Worlds (because NE is a district as well). If they get a second regional, then Ontario should immediately move to districts.

Florida and Minnesota both make sense, and I'm sure we'll see those two move in the next two years. California makes the most sense split into Northern and Southern. Someone more familiar with the size and distribution of Texas teams should comment on Texas, I don't know enough about the region.

Just my opinions.

Florida, regretfully, will probably be one of the last holdouts for districts. The size and makeup of the state geographically along with the decline of teams hurts that chances pretty hard.

[jajabinx124]

Originally Posted by TDav540

Florida and Minnesota both make sense, and I'm sure we'll see those two move in the next two years.

Just my opinions.

I understand your opinion and the districts system would be awesome here in MN, but IMO Minnesota isn't going to districts anytime soon. From what I've heard, MN has issues getting enough volunteers for the 4 regionals we have in our state, so thinking about districts and the number of events that may need to be put up for districts here is insane.

Maybe in the next 5 or so years it may switch to districts.. but that's just my guess.

[EricH]

CA going district--in whole or in part--is going to be an interesting experience, IF it ever happens. With 7 regionals, including one of the largest in the country, last year, and I want to say less than 7 open spots last year, it's very crowded. Splitting north/south will also be quite interesting: believe it or not, the split would likely be about 2/3 of the way down the state geographically, but would split the current regionals 3/4 north/south. (There aren't a lot of teams in the far north third of the state, to put it mildly.)


OTOH, I think an awful lot of CA teams will be pretty happy whenever it happens. More playing time and all that.