Why are the State Championships tied to Easterns and Westerns?
The key to growing High School Ultimate is increasing the events at the local level. The UPA is a national organization with limited resources and is unable to travel around hosting state tournaments. What we can do is host national level tournaments and create incentives and a support structure for teams and their supporters to organize locally. State tournaments are a big step towards increasing legitimacy at the high school level. Even if only two or three teams attend, it allows one team to call itself the state champions, gives all the teams a goal for the next year, and sets a precedent for the event for future years.
