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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
Matches per event has almost nothing to do with the district system. Basically every strategy to increase matches per event that FiM used can be applied to a traditional regional without changing to a district system. FiM districts just end up running a much tighter and longer schedule (for more total matches) than any equivalent sized (or smaller) regional. The matches per event can, and in my opinion should, be increased under the traditional regional method.
The argument for more events at the same cost is valid, though.
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I wasn't so much talking about matches per event (although under the current FIRST Regional format, teams are unable to get 12 qualification matches in - I agree that could/should be changed), but rather number of matches per initial investment. Initial investment outside MI gets you 1 Regional with only 8-10 matches guaranteed. Initial registration in MI gets you 2 District events with 24 matches guaranteed.