Hopefully last year was an anomaly with Covid. Pretty sure it was power points before that. For example, the year Appo traveled to Union and lost a close game, keep in mind there were two number one seeds, not just one. There was a one seed in Region D, and Appo, the one seed in Region C. Union went undefeated that year in regular season and Appo lost one regular season game. I wouldn't be surprised if Union actually outpointed Appo, forcing Appo to travel to Union. With the Covid Spring, the state title games are/were more centrally located in Virginia, and Region's A and D are closer to the Eastern and Western Ends of the State. This is why they made Region's B and C travel in the semi's I would guess, but don't know for sure.