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Time zones work the other way. On a given date, New Zealand starts first and places west of there start successively later. China is four hours behind NZ. California is fifteen hours behind China.

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It all depends on the days they chose to have these events. Most regionals are Thursday to Saturday. Some district events are Friday to Saturday, and others are Saturday to Sunday. I was naturally assuming Saturday to Sunday because that's how the district events are here in CHS. So if you watch the last day of a west coast regional ending at 5 PM PST or 8 PM EST on Saturday, that night you can watch the last day (Sunday) of a china event starting at say 9 AM in china, so it's 9 PM on the east coast, and 6 PM on the west coast.

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An update on the Texas Districts progress: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...hreadid=148748. Further along than most of the previous replies in this thread had thought.

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Kansas would need to be included in that district unless they made a new Kansas regional.

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As far as Ontario goes, we are moving to districts for 2017! :D

https://www.facebook.com/FIRSTRoboti...7215547010163/

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Ontario District discussion here: https://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/s...d.php?t=148937

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Over the next two months, most of the new districts should be announced.

What percentage of teams will be districts in 2017?

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I'm a little surprised at how quickly this moves. I had heard rumblings of Ontario going to districts about a month ago - someone on a Quebec team made an offhand remark about not being able to go to Ontario anymore due to Ontario going to districts. I didn't put much stock in the comment at the time thinking, surely if that were true, we'd be notified well beforehand.

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I remember being told by team members and friends that districts would be next year in 2012 :D

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2016 District Numbers :

2017 Potential New District Numbers :

With strong team growth in districts, districts will likely grow to over 50% of all FRC teams in 2017.

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Does that strong team growth really apply outside of Michigan? Are other districts ahead or behind of the regional growth rates?

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This is a really good question.

The growing number of teams in Michigan has been fueled by state money, and made sustainable by parallel growth in the volunteer corps and local business support for new district competitions. Underlying both of these is the growing network of sustainable, strong teams -- both in outreach impact and on-field competitiveness.

I think this sustainable growth can and will be replicated in other places.

(Cue Jim Zondag. :))

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Israel.