Improving the District Experience

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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

That's probably because of your geography. You're the southernmost District, and your nearest neighbors are NC which is also a new District this year. They didn't fill up Asheville, so there wasn't any incentive for NC teams to travel further to the PCH events.

If other bordering states become Districts, you'll likely get some cross-border pollination. But it won't really start until teams can go cross-border and earn points.

I spoke to the main mentor of one of our stalwart teams in FiM back when we started districts. The team traveled up to Traverse City. The mentor told me that the team members really didn't care where they went (they'd gone out of state in prior years) - they just wanted to have the opportunity to travel and stay in a hotel. If they begin to allow travel events to count, we'll probably see more and more of it.

On the contrast, MAR has had only one out of state team attend, which was this year. A number of MAR teams have played in New England though