Last year .... A Covid year, there were basically the same amount of teams at both E and D2. People are getting tired of states, I guess becsuse it's a pain in the ass to go with rosters and checking every players rating, etc. Trust me.
I remember the old days when B had 60 teams. C and D would have 120 plus teams. Teams were put in pools of 4 teams and all teams played 3 games. Only the Bracket winner advanced out into a double Elim tournament with close to 30 teams. Ask Heels, when his J&L Towing team won in 1981, they play 10 games to win. Just throwing some history at you.