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Originally Posted by Alpha Beta

Some interesting ideas for a Missouri district from another thread.


Since GKC and St. Louis were on the same weekend for the first time this year we never had the opportunity to get all the top teams in the state together. An invitational state championship offseason event would be a fantastic way to practice the logistics for a potential district championship without having to pay FIRST an exhorbinant entrance fee (which does not funnel back to the local tournament organizers). Lots of models (Minnesota, Indiana, etc..) to choose from. Noticed that St. Louis does not currently host an offseason event... (No pressure. ) Since it doesn't make sense to border off Southern Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas from Missouri, I'd invite them too based on points.

Jaxom already did a nice job of tallying up district points for Missouri and Kansas here. Just need to combine the lists and sprinkle in the Illinois and Iowa teams who attended Missouri regionals this year. (Maybe include 525 too for fun even though they, for the first time since 2006, did not play in Missouri and by school policy wouldn't be able to attend an offseason event here.)

Sorry to "hijack" the thread but I think this would be a viable option for the offseason event that we are planning to run this fall. The event would be ran on either Aug.9-10 or just the 10 depending on what the teams want. I think we would want to invite the top 32 ranked teams that competed at both Missouri Regionals.(We would also invite teams 16 and 525 if all 32 decline.) Registration would be for $200 if we would only run on the 10th then we would run the event just like Indiana except that we would have elimination alliances of 4 with alliance selection based off of Cowtown's and VRC's additions to the selection process.(i.e. 1-8 can't pick themselves, 1 picks first during the first two rounds of selection then 8 picks first in the final round, and all 4 teams have to play at least once during each elimination round). We would highly consider doing this if teams are on board for it.