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Originally Posted by SoftwareBug2.0
I don't follow. How is this different from going to a far away regional before going to your local one?
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At a regional event you are given three days with your robot including one full day of practice whereas at district competitions you need to show up ready to play. Therefore you could go to a regional mainly to spend three days with it fine tuning it and getting up to competition par before going into district system (2+ district events & DCMP) before going to WCMP.
Or you could go to an outside regional in an attempt to qualify for the World Championship and completely avoid playing at your DCMP and save $4000 in registration fees. You would then have DCMP as fall-back plan in case you didn't qualify at your regional.
Our team tore our robot down to just its drivebase and completely rebuilt twice this season during both Thursdays at The Granite State Regional and The Pine Tree Regional. The second time we were done and fully inspected by lunch time. Thinking about it, if Pine Tree were our "outside regional" and our team then took that robot into a district season it would have been very scary. Our team went from having a robot that did 10-30 hang points in a match at GSR to 90-108 on average.
As it has been mentioned it is very expensive and exhausting. Our team would have to travel 6-10 hours to get to a regional since the 5 closest to us are turning into NEFIRST. But it is nice to get out of your comfort zone and compete with new teams every once and a while!