All District FIRST?

[Alexa_Stott]

I dont think states themselves will be parted off. I think having it states as a whole would be better.

MAR has already divided a state in half (only the eastern half of PA is included). I think that’s a good way to go, IMO. Teams often consider regionals outside of their state to be their “home regionals” because it’s closer for them. In another thread about districts, I used the example of South Jersey and Delaware teams attending the Philly regional instead of NJ because it was much closer for them. You see the same thing in other regions (someone pointed out earlier that panhandle teams mostly competed in nola).

Of course, this wouldn’t be as much of a problem if they allowed interdistrict play.

[dodar]

MAR has already divided a state in half (only the eastern half of PA is included). I think that’s a good way to go, IMO. Teams often consider regionals outside of their state to be their “home regionals” because it’s closer for them. In another thread about districts, I used the example of South Jersey and Delaware teams attending the Philly regional instead of NJ because it was much closer for them. You see the same thing in other regions (someone pointed out earlier that panhandle teams mostly competed in nola).

Of course, this wouldn’t be as much of a problem if they allowed interdistrict play.

Well the main reasoning behind that thought process would be that most states already have organized state championships for other states and so it would be easier to bring FIRST into the mainstream if the setup was easy to understand for normal high school/middle school families.