Official Inter-District Interest

[TD78]

Originally Posted by kjohnson

I'm not sure that completely removing teams from their home district is a viable solution to keep districts balanced. For inter-district play to work teams should still have to attend one points event in their home district and compete at their home DCMP.

We are 10 miles from the southern border of CHS, making NC district events lucrative to us financially. Last season NC was struggling to fill some of their events while CHS is looking at possibly needing to add an additional event for 2017. Inter-district play would benefit both districts.

What Rick is getting at is that for teams like yourselves, because you live so close to an adjacent district (NC), you would actually leave the CHS district and become a permanent part of the NC district for some amount of time (2, 3, 4 years...whatever). You may live inside the borders of CHS, but you would be a part of NC, competing in its district events and its district championship. It's been brought up before...conference play, or something similar to that.

[Zebra_Fact_Man]

Here is my very selfish reason why I voted no:

My team intends to register for a non-FiM district early in the season next year (Wks 1-3) to get some inexpensive practice in for our two districts that count (Wks 3-6). If Inter-District Play becomes counted, we lose that option (unless we can opt out of counting that event's points). Regionals are a lot more money, a lot less matches, more days I have to take off work, and a lot smaller chance of making the playoff. A District Event offers us much more practice potential.

[FrankJ]

I thought the point of districts was to lower costs and give more plays for your bucks. Anyway. I am not sure how judged awards that have a district winner would be handled. Without that teams that are competitive for those awards would have little incentive to go out of district for point events. A third event would be fun, but given the total cost a close regional is still a better value. Currently for PCH there are 4 regional in the same travel radius as the closest out of district district.

Since our team is still run by full time students 3 in district events (2 district + states) and hopefully 1/2 champs is about as much as we can manage. (Please take this as a good natured poke at the pro teams out there and not a serious complaint)

[GeeTwo]

I checked "Yes, but probably wouldn't use it", simply because LA/MS is so far from going to districts that it won't matter for us for a while.

Why do I like the idea of inter-district play?

1. Inspiration. Travel inspires those who travel as they see new places. People (teams) who travel inspire those they meet. Ain't that what it's all about?
2. Geographic reality. No matter how you slice districts, there are going to be teams located on the boundary, who will find it far more convenient to compete in several of the events in the "nearby" district than many of those in their home district. Some may find a way to "get a P.O. Box in the other district" and make it work, but some really are on the fence and could benefit from both. There are certain to be teams which will be more sustainable splitting their competition among two adjacent districts.