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I imagine FIRST HQ looked at what weekends were available and choose based off that.

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North has most of the districts, and pushing the districts into fewer weeks is hard. Makes more sense to give North an extra week.

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Agreed. To top that, the only district going to the Houston Championship that had a week 7 DCMP in 2016 is Peachtree, so there aren't even too many events that have to move.

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North Carolina doesn't count? Jeez... we get no respect.

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Um....pretty sure you had a week 6 DCMP.....https://www.thebluealliance.com/events

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Well then I can't count... which actually explains a lot. ;)

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As a counter, most teams that travel to FIRST Super Regional South (FSRS) have to fly, and now have one less week to book airfare, further increasing the cost for them to attend FSRS.

Most of those attending FSRN don't have to book airfare. Specifically, literally 25% of FSRN attendees live in the same state at their FSR from 2018-2020. This is not the case for FSRS.

Also, FSRS being Week 8 is just another bump in the long, 10+ year road to get California to Districts. Good times!

Question, will Peachtree District be pushing their DCMP to week 6 next year? Has it been discussed?

-Mike

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Feel free to come to North, we'd love to have you :)

Your point is a good one. Teams can reserve then cancel buses. Harder to do for flights. I think the increase in events per week has a bigger impact, but that's probably just personal bias. Michigan is probably 24 events next year, and a jump from 3.5 events/week (21 in 6) to 4.8 (24 in 5) would be rough.

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Good point.

Pro's and Con's to both options.

Another thing to consider; FSRN is definitely going to be considered the real CMP for the next four years.

• One more week of iterations (two more weeks in 2019)
• FSRS to watch/study the week before
• Better districts/regional teams
• Less Waitlist Teams

I predict FSRN will have higher average scores in quals and stronger playoff alliances for 2017-2020.

We'd like to come to FSRN but I have a feeling that will be pretty difficult :(

-Mike

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Higher Qual scores, probably. Better playoffs alliances.....I think that's more division dependent and will fluctuate. Effectively, you're adding 25 teams to each division. How many of these teams make the playoffs? A few come to mind, but not much more than that.

I expect the level of eliminations play to be relatively the same this year as it was in 2015 and 2016, at least at the division finals level.

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Yes, and no. We'll hopefully be able to have a full answer soon. We've also got the new FTC South Super-Regional as well in Georgia for 2017, so January - March is going to be interesting in getting all the events in.

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I think the PNW is also holding the West Super Regional this year, which might push their previously 6 week district schedule into a tight squeeze.

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I wouldn't be surprised to find more Oregon/Eastern WA teams going to West Valley next year. There was only 34 this year, and 2015 only had 28.

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It is not really an realistic option for PCH to stay at week 7. Robot shipping alone is bad enough. The initial qualifiers have until Tues to pay. Which means the teams that get the pass down slots will have to pay, ship their robots, find hotel rooms, and leave Tues night. We thought the 6 week build was high pressure. :) First wouldn't be able to assign PCH teams to fields and build the schedule until payment was confirmed. Which would be Tues afternoon at the earliest.

Week 7 is also Easter Weekend. While not an issue for some, It is a big issue for others.

I guess they could move PCH to 1/2 Championship North which is actually geographically closer, at least in 2017.

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Have any of the impacted districts considered "week 0.5" district events? This would be the weekend immediately after bag day.