The NE District tournament is a joke for a number of reasons....
1. By going to the home sites - you are really allowing the "good old boys network" and "league alliances" to have a major impact on the state tournament - which should be as "human-free" and "fair" as possible when determining brackets. It is a joke when you have 6 teams in 1 conference in a certain district and these districts openly vote each other higher than other teams in the district, just because they are from the same league - the same district where a team may have no league alliances. When you throw home court advantage into the mix - the only way that seeding should be decided is by a "harbin points" system - similar to how the OHSAA does it in football. This takes out the comical "we play a tough schedule" argument (when most times it isn't very tough) and actually rewards you for playing and beating good teams.
2. The are districts in every division that absolutely suck. The NE district should 100% have a super-district - so that we are assured of the 4 best teams in each region - each year. Last year in D3, you could have easily argued that Chippewa, Orrville and Loudonville were 3 of the top 10 teams in the state (along with Elyria Catholic) - yet only 1 of them were able to advance out of the Wooster District. Orrville and Loudonville would have beaten Southeast or Champion by double-digits. In D2 - Laurel clearly was 1 of the 4 best teams in the Region - yet they are stuck at home because of a 1-point loss to ST V, who went to Columbus. A super-district and harbin points system (makes seeding as legit as possible and rewards tough schedule) is the most FAIR way to go.
3. When you have the home sites and run all of the sectional games on the same nights - it makes scouting much tougher for coaches (unless you have Hudl). It also takes away the fun tournament atmosphere that we use to have when each game was played at the same site.
4. Online tournament voting allows coaches to be cowards, because they don't have to face the coaches that they are voting for. Schools that enter records late or in an inaccurate manner are also rarely punished.
None of these things will change, because there are large conference alliances who benefit from this approach. So, whenever a "vote" is had - they win on each of the measures.