Predictions Week 6: Damaged Defenses

[MikLast]

Originally Posted by The other Gabe

my guess is that they'll cycle it... 1 year in Portland, 1 year in Cheney, ad infinitum. probably so that sometimes the teams in the south get a short trip, and so that sometimes everyone has to drive really far - I mean, so that sometimes the teams in the north get a short trip

I thought we were talking about districts, not Worlds!

The reasoning behind it (if i remember correctly) is to help the presence of teams in eastern Washington and Oregon grow (and if Idaho ever joined too north Idaho) as there is about 35ish teams in eastern Washington and Oregon. Compared to Seattle and Portland, we are a small minority of teams that are also hurting for money (as maybe 1/4 of the teams are community teams of some sort) as some barley afford to even pay the registration fee (and some were really ticked off about the "paying for DCMP even if you are not going" system this year.) While it is a pain for many teams over on the western side, without some big events being hosted here, a lot of teams in eastern Washington and Oregon will fail, leaving even less teams out here than they already are, and would leave a huge chunk geographically of the PNW district "Dead in the water" with only the schools with huge budgets to throw money at stuff surviving.

Its also great for us because it means no 8 hour drive every other year