If Europe can put together something like the Junior Eurovision Song Contest (JESC) wouldnt it be great if the U.S. could somehow do the same?
Instead of 50 countries we have 50 states. So there would be no issues with travel or needing Visas to go from country to country. The U.S. is already naturally broken down into five different sections making it easy to figure out which state goes to what regional: North East; South East; Mid West; Pacific North West; and South Western.
Then each year you move around the regional host city along with the National Championship city. You wouldnt have to worry about having to find a huge arena since you could probably use any NBA Basketball arena or NHL Hockey, or even Minor League Hockey arena. I havent been to any locally here, but I have been to the Spiderweb in San Francisco, CA and that seemed like it would be big enough.
I just think its time for something different than American Idol or Americas Got Talent.
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