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Originally Posted by PayneTrain
^One thing Brandon didn't come right out and say, but I'm sure he thinks is important, is that more teams get recognition for their hard work at the district level than at the regional level.
When 2495 won the Lenape District in Week 4, they earned the same kind of blue banner anyone in any regional would have earned if they won their tournament. Sure, the team did not win MAR Champs, but they won a blue banner. Whether it's a district or a regional, winning an event is no easy feat in the tournament or in the Chairman's room, and their accomplishment was recognized.
There are a lot of really good teams in really dense, strong areas of robot country that may have limitations in funding because they are not providing winning results. I imagine that winning a district is a provides a morale boost for team members and supporters as well as attracts potential sponsors for a team trying to make itself as tough as the established powerhouses.
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Adding to recognition (and I don't know if it was mentioned in this thread), but a District championship provides a tangible, obtainable goal for many teams that, if attending Championships, would have gone based off the previous existence of open registration. We're not a regional winning level team by any means necessary. But the existence of MAR Championships has enabled us to enter our districts with the logic of, "we need to do this and this and this to be able to
make it to MAR champs"
I put the emphasis on what I did because for a team that it is unrealistic to win in to championships for in the traditional regional structure, MAR championships gives an accomplishment-based reward for teams that otherwise would feel no accomplishment/reward based off the regional system(ie. you had to win a regional to make it into the next level of competition-Championships)