The other 3 districts should still have local opens on those weekends so you should be able to stay sharp and keep competing. Watered down? Wouldn't happen, you would have kids who didn't want to travel the 1st 3 weeks and at minimum the 4 kids who are good enough to be in the top 16 at state, I don't call that watered down. That is just my opinion.
I think that it is a bad idea. I would also hate to have my kids qualify in the 1st district tourny then have to sit and wait for 4 weeks for state.Not only that but by the time you get to the 4th qualifier the completion will be getting watered down anyways so what is the point. It's kinda like district 2 cutting out subs to help the families save money but now they are having a district 2 championship tournament instead. So why not just have the sub district tournament.
