You can look at the high mileage argument in two ways though. If we look at this as a one-time "try-to-get-as-many-people-as-possible-together" event, there's no better time to do it than ASAP because of the increasingly higher mileage on our VX's.
Otherwise, I agree that the regional set-up is the way to go, though I would argue that we're already doing that, albeit informally.