I dunno, KB. I think that you have it stuck in your head that people in our region aren't trying to do things that make both themselves and their region better. I think that it's an excellent idea to travel and see what works for other regions and to come back and try to implement that. However, things that are true for other regions aren't for here.
Like Composer mentioned, it's not like people don't want to go and do smashfests and learn and all that sort of thing. I mean, ****. Look at the Fizzles, Iskas, Joey's, Kero's and the L_Cancel's of our region. ****, look at MI as a state. There are plenty of talented, skillful players around that legitimately CAN'T GET PLACES for variety of reasons. Sure there are problems in lack of communication and probably even inherent distrust between top competitors that hinder our state in particular.
All I hear about are problems and complaints about how we're the worst and we don't do anything, but there aren't mentions of what's done. People don't mention how Composer, Hilt, Crash and pretty much all of INKY organize to get their states players out to things they normally can't or how Day and Sai organized get togethers in Cincinnati, or how Clowsui tried and is trying. Or how Keister, Frenchman, Quivo, and Big_R have set up opportunities for Columbus to organize and do things for our state. How Greenup travels hours to go to anywhere. ****, IL and WI freely travel between the two states to get places. MO and KS almost literally came up out of ****ing nowhere. All of them travel.
People do practice, a lot of people want to get better and do train when they can. Some stuff just isn't logistically possible right now. But people are trying. What have you been doing, KB? Save for apparently playing Monday Morning Quarterback.