Why do we incentivize top teams to disengage from their communities, skip sectionals, and only stoop to play vs local teams at regionals (sometimes)?
Playing against great players/teams is a key way to get better... but TCT requires those teams to play non-local competition!
What’s wrong with more localized play? Why don't we incentivize travel tournaments instead of strong-arming teams into them? Where is cost-reduction for players considered in this model? This has never been clearly explained.