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Re: KC Regional Considering District Model
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Originally Posted by lpickett
How would robots be stored between weekends? Would they have to be bagged and tagged again?
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Rebagged and taken back home. Keep in mind that the weekends may not be consecutive depending on when gymnasiums can be acquired. Teams might even travel to another regional event in the middle of the process if the weeks were far enough apart.
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Originally Posted by lpickett
Couldn't they use another venue that would have the space for one weekend instead of two?
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Yes, that is what we have now with Hale Arena, and besides the continued escalating costs for the arena there is no pressing need to change. What we do have is an opportunity to change if the perceived bennefit is great enough.
As more regions move to districts with closed borders local teams may find themselves with diminishing opportunities to attend a 2nd regional. This proposal helps to mitigate that problem and makes additional match play accesssible for teams who cannot afford that opportunity now.
Many have dreamed of an era when all of FIRST moves to a district model. Maybe then we can drop the artificial borders which preclude teams from playing wherever they want to. Perhaps when that day comes teams will be invited to Super Regionals based on geographic location and a point system where they can then qualify for the World Championship. This would be similar to how MSC and the MAR Championship are conducted now. One of the great challenges in this transition is developing the volunteer infrastructure at the local level to make it work. This proposal would allow us to start developing that in Kansas City in preparation for that future.
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