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Georgia District Location Speculation
Since the announcement of Georgia switching to the districts format, my team's electrical captain and I have been trying to figure out how this thing works, but we are wondering where the 4 district events will be located. Any Ideas? :confused:
We think that there will be 1 in Macon, 1 in Atlanta, 1 near Columbus, and 1 either in Savannah or in North GA. |
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From what I heard the district events are going to be held at KSU, Mercer, Albany Tech, and possibly Northwest Georgia Technical College and Georgia Tech, with the District Championship at UGA.
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GT does not need to showcase themselves as they get the cream of the crop of students and UGA needs to showcase themselves to get students in their Engineering program.
I bet KSU, Albany Coliseum (X-bots venue) and Mercer for districts and UGA for State. If this happens a majority of teams will need to greatly increase their travel expenses. State will make 99% of the teams travel. If the prediction for locations above happens many more teams will have to travel to go to two district events. Still waiting to see more out of GAFIRST on details. They must still be in the planning/negotiation stages. |
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As for traveling to the state event, I agree that it is not an ideal location (I go to GT so trust me that I wasn't thrilled when I heard the news), but they did step up and are willing to host the district champs, and I think that most people would prefer to travel a little bit farther then compete at GWCC again. |
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I'd rather compete at the GWCC again. It was a great venue in 2014. In 2015 they kind of screwed it up, but with less teams it should be great. I also don't see why we can't go back to the Gwinnett Center, now that states is going to have less teams. The Gwinnett Center was a great venue for less than 50 teams and many teams were able to commute there. I'm also wondering why we have to be special about our events and can't just host them at the larger high schools (e.g. Walton, Kell). Everywhere else in districts hosts at high schools or community centers. I'd imagine renting out a university facility costs a lot more. |
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MOST district events are Friday load-in/inspection/practice (starting at 4 pm), Saturday & Sunday competition. School boards love this, no missed school time. Mentors love this, no vacation days needed. Students have fun anyway. And those who attend church on Sunday can still do so - just early. Georgia Teams, if you run an off-season event, you can run a District competition. And even if you don't (why not?) you can still do this. And, if you work the concession stand right, it can even be a major fund-raiser for you: 1000 people for breakfast & lunch - twice - means how much $$? Just raise your hand to the committee. |
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