Is Footlocker (Champs) missing out on a true national championship?

Northeast can’t do both either because the regionals are the same day

CA State XC is Nov 26.

NXN NE, SE, and NY Regionals all on Nov 26.

All Footlocker (Champs) Regionals are Nov 26.

There really is no fix, unless you want to see Footlocker Regionals on Dec 10 and Nationals Dec 17.

It's not NXNs job to make Footlocker (Champs) more appealing. At some point I see FL disappearing.

Alan

Footlocker needs to go away. XC is a team sport.

You guys are the reason Cross Country was kicked off the Olympic schedule. Foot Locker delivered again another amazing race.

I don't think it matters too much, everyone involved is aware of the obvious people missing. Just an opportunity for a competitive postseason race.

Never going to happen since states like New York and California refuse to move their state meets to earlier dates.

New York is an easy fix since all they have to do is eliminate the Federation meet.

California has like a five week long state series so I don't know what to do about that other than combining or eliminating an early round.

This is on CA in my opinion; they are the outlier. Move the state meet up if you want athletes to compete in the bigger national meets. The rest of the nation can't wait around for an extra week or two. It's already a long season as it is. CA could even run their state meet after the national meets.

No-the Champs West regional is a week later, because the CA state meet is held the same day all the other Champs regions are held (Sat after Thanksgiving). CA has it's own region for Nike that is done through the CA State meet merge. That is why kids out west can do both NXN and Champs.

I think Malmo is the only active poster who was involved in the sport in the 1920's, so more likely the Olympics dropped xc due to him.

It's not CA's responsibility to move things around to accommodate either NVN or FL.

You might want to consider the small number of people affected here compared to the number of CA state meet participants here, it's not close.

If those post season championship races want to move things around they can.

Bottom line is no one really cares... Nike gets their exposure and Champs gets theirs.

*NXN

WRONG.

That's incorrect. NXN and the Champs West Regional is the same day, so kids in California can do either NXN or Champs but not both.

The main point of Footlocker / Champs is not running. It's about marketing the sponsor, which is now Champs.

As long as Champs (or whatever the sponsor name is in the future) feels that they are getting enough marketing exposure by holding the race, then they will continue to hold the race, regardless of what NXN is doing.

San Diego has become High School baby nationals.

Well I'm an idiot.

Easy solution: drop NXN or move it. There was never any problem until Nike decided to get in the game. San Diego nationals worked just fine for 30 plus years.

If any shoe company except Nike were sponsoring the BrooksXN, or Saucony XC etc, etc everyone would be calling that the true National Championship because it includes teams and individuals.

If one of the best runners is on a great team they're going to Nike. That means that any other race can't have all the top runners. A lot of great individuals choose Nike for that reason.

The others are nice opportunities for post season racing but they shouldn't call themselves Nationals.

It would be more beneficial to the running community as a whole if everyone would agree on one.

One has a legit qualifying procedure and pays for the athletes to be there. The truly best teams in the nation go to that one.

NXN’s at large choices were far from the description of legit qualifying procedures….Top 10 teams were left home