Currently region 4 is made up of 3 districts, GSL (7 schools), KingCo (7 schools) & MCC (4 schools). If you look at the numbers a maxed-out district tournament should of had 196 wrestlers at both the GSL and KingCo tournaments, and MCC would of been 112 wrestlers. However, we know that rarely are these tournaments going to be completely at 100%. But the numbers matter a lot. GSL had 155 (79%), KingCo had 126 (64%) and MCC 97 (86%). Both GSL and KingCo got an allocation of 6 to regionals and MCC got 4 to make up a 16 man regional bracket.
Next year if there isn't a regional tournament you are going to see districts like the MCC that will see a huge impact on how many kids can make it to state. If we just use the current region 4 numbers, you are going to see both the GSL and KingCo get 3 births to to state and MCC get 2. Im going to guess that the MCC had one of if not the fullest district brackets. So you are going to see a district like KingCo get 3 straight to state even though their total number are closer to a district with nearly half the number of schools.
At least with the current regional layout you at least see the MCC and GSL have to fight it out for a spot to state and KingCo get thinned out in the process and only let the very toughest from KingCo into state. Right now, if you look at the rankings you will see 40% of the top ten teams are in region 4 and not one of them is from KingCo.
The KingCo 106 bracket had 4 kids in it. That means that all you have to do is show up you go to state at minimum as an alternate. Whereas the MCC had 6 boys in the 106 bracket. Letting only 2 into state and the other 4 not because of the number of schools in your district is an unfair way of allocation. Some districts are naturally going to have a much greater turn-out and they shouldn't be punished for that.
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