District/Regional Format

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I dislike the district/state championship format for a few reasons. I feel that this format stops Michigan teams from knowing about the teams from the rest of the world. Sure a team can go to another regional, like 217, and see those teams, but who has that kind of money any more. Back when I was onmy team, I knew teams and people from around the world because I went to different regionals outside my state. Now I feel that the Michigan kids of today are being deprived of that. These kids hear of stories of other legendary teams around the nation and they can go check them out on here or other websites. But what about these new upcomming teams that, because of the new district format, people like myself cannot even get to see. Back when I was on my team we would go to the midwest regional and see teams like 71, 111, 45, 101, 383(yes the brazillian team), 16, 648, 234, 447, 292, and 461. Those are just the teams that I can remember off the top of my head. These kids will only see these teams at nationals. I think that it hurts FIRST by doing this. I know this format is well liked, and I know that I am rarely every on any more, but I do know that I kind of dislike how things are going and I wanted to voice my opinion on it. Thanks for your time.