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Re: Official: New England Districts in 2014

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Originally Posted by Kims Robot View Post
If this were the case, there would be no incentive for NE to go to districts. Why do more work just to lose WCMP slots for your teams?? Like I said, read the NE blog. I'm fairly certain there would be a riot if we got fewer than 30 slots
I firmly disagree. I see a lot of incentive for New England to go to districts (i.e. lower cost per event, more events, a DCMP at which the best of NE compete, and more regional pride/camaraderie) that outweigh the cost of a few teams qualifying for CMP. Personally, I'd rather go to World Championships
~18% less often if it meant having the District system.

Regardless, I'd prefer to see the "slots for CMP assigned by region's percentage of total teams" applied in New England. That's the fairer way to represent who goes to CMP... that way you don't have Michigan sending a tiny percentage (like they did last year) because of misrepresentation, nor can someone else complain "Hey, that region gets to send 20% of their teams, while we only get to send 15%!"

As a sidenote, only 28 teams (3 ME, 5 NH, 2 RI, 8 MA, 10 CT) qualified in 2013 from New England, despite having 30 regional slots and those extra HoF and founding slots...
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