Quote Originally Posted by ShotgunDawg View Post
You make fair points, but, personally, I'm don't believe attendence issues should affect the integrity of the process. Teams should be put in regionals where they deserve to go, not where how many fans they being permits them to go. If you begin using attendence factors to determine regionals, then you will create a slippery slope that could begin to effect the integrity of the CWS immediately.

It sucks, but sometimes this is just the way the cookie crumbles.
But technically they ARE basing it on attendence. You have your hosts and then the 2-4 are as local as possible to boost ATTENDANCE. Some regionals don't look that way because they have to break up conference members and sometimes there is just nowhere else to send someone (ex: not make JSU a 3 seed just to keep 'em local - that kind of thing). They are trying to boost attendance with what they set up. SO, if they're gonna do that...fine, but pay attention to make sure the venue can handle it.