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Originally Posted by dodar
In response to Joe:
Yes, buts that also because you have probably more than half of the FiM teams within a few hours travel distance of those events; which allows for multiple of those events at the same time. You could no do that in Florida. Take Central Florida teams for example, if you dont have a Central Florida regional atleast once a week, its almost a travel regional to anywhere else in the state; unless you just want to have the same teams competing against each other every single week. From Brevard County to Jacksonville or Miami is 2-4 hours one way. That would mean getting hotels for a North Florida District or a South Florida District. When the areas between the Georgia border and Orlando are filled in along with Miami to Orlando, then you can gain those easily attendable district events. Looking towards a Florida District system, I think there would have to be events in: Orlando, Tampa, Melbourne, Daytona, Tallahassee, Gainesville, Miami, Boca Raton, Pensacola. That would see pretty evenly distributed and all near areas that would get the most team growth.
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Neither Michigan nor MAR have ideal team or district desnities. Nowhere does. There are always going to be teams who have to travel further or stay overnight to compete. The most flagrant example would be the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, which lacks the team density for its own district and is at least 3 hours from the nearest district and about 5 from the next closest. The district model is not the best solution for 100% of teams, but it does help the majority of teams compete more at less expense.
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Originally Posted by Kims Robot
I am sincerely hoping that as we move to more bordering district regions, that FIRST helps us all figure out how to do the interdistrict play... but to do that, the points systems very likely have to be the same (or have some weird thing like the points don't count for your out of district play). There have been plenty of discussions around this, but I think so far FIRST has been against it. I think if more regions start to push for it, and as more Districts form up, I think it will be time to try and figure out how to do this effectively, as what has made so much of FIRST great is meeting teams from other places and finding out more about different regions. I really hope that we find a way to make all of that work.
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Ultimately, I think the simplest solution is to not have borders at all. Simply register for whatever districts you chose, just like you would with regionals currently. Then your points earned count towards your assigned region championship. I don't even think the points system would even really have to be the same, you simply earn them based on your region's point system.
That being said, I would like a standardized point system. Preferably the FiM/MAR system (with the RAS difference resolved), as I don't really like the proposed NE system.