Are 8 play regional reasonable?

[AGPapa]

Originally Posted by maxnz

We could call it the Minnesota District (MN) or we could include IA, ND, SD and WI and call it the Upper Midwest District (UMW).

If Minnesota goes into it's own district region by itself it will already have the most teams for a first-year district. Every other region went to districts with way less teams than Minnesota already has. Including other states and bumping that number up higher would make it even harder to organize that first year.

More teams means more events, which means more fields and more volunteers. Minnesota needs to switch before they get to 240 teams, that'll let them get by with only two fields. Waiting too long or adding other states makes the switch turn from hard to nearly impossible.

Originally Posted by bjtheone

This is the biggest win for the district model. Up in the Frozen North (aka Canada) there are unfortunately not enough teams _yet_ to support the district model so we have regionals.

Ontario absolutely has enough teams for districts right now. There are 137 teams in Ontario this year, more than MAR, CHS, IN, GA and NC.