District System in Other Regions in 2010?

[Jared Russell]

Anyone interested in doing some hypothetical FIRST gerrymandering?

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Jared341

Anyone interested in doing some hypothetical FIRST gerrymandering?

PA NYC and NJ? Too big?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Jared341

Anyone interested in doing some hypothetical FIRST gerrymandering?

Well...

For now, leave out NZ, Israel, Europe, and Central/South America. (low team density).

Canada gets 1 area, which excludes BC.
The Pacific Northwest gets another, with BC, Washington, Oregon, Idaho.
CA gets its own, with NV and AZ.
The upper/mid Rockies get one with Montana, CO, Utah, Wyoming, and the western part of Nebraska and the Dakotas.
NM, TX, LA, AR, and OK get one.
MI's Lower Peninsula stays as is; it's dangerous enough already.
The upper Midwest gets one or two.
MN, WI, the UP of MI, and the eastern part of the Dakotas and Nebraska go into one.
New England gets one highly defensive one.
The Mid-Atlantic gets one.
The Southeast gets one.

Each area has at least one event that is open for teams from outside the area to compete in. HI has a standard regional or joins CA. Zones left out continue with the regional model until they get more teams.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Ice Berg

My team is not from Michigan, and I did not go to any of the district events or the championship. However, it seemed to me like a very good system. Teams got more events, more matches, and it seemed to really send the best teams to nationals. Has anyone heard if they will be using this model in other places? I would love to see it in the tri-state area (NY, CONN, NJ). We have 5 regionals in the area (nyc, utc, sbpli, finger lakes and nj), and it seems like it could work well. I wasn't at nationals, so I don't know if they announced anything about spreading the district system, or new regionals. Anyone know anything about this?

I'm also pro-district for next year. This whole time I just haven't been able to figure out with regions would be designated as part of certain district competitions. NYC, UTC, SBPLI,FLR, and NJ might be too large of an area, but it would be AWESOME to see this happen.