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Originally Posted by EricDrost
This is extremely disappointing. Until FIRST allows cross-district registration, this villainizes successful district teams that want to travel. The teams at the regional they attend will be upset with them for eating up a spot, and the teams in their district will be upset with them for eating up a spot. This just seems like a lose-lose way of limiting the number of teams per district that qualify for champs.
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I completely agree with this, from the perspective of a team who won both a regional and district event last year. Teams were already not too pleased that we took away possible points from other non-qualified teams by winning in districts when we were already qualified for St Louis (or taking a district chairman's slot for that matter). Hypothetically, with the new system, we would have not only taken away points from other teams, we would have also taken away a spot from the district as a whole (while subsequently taking away a spot from wherever we competed). I agree that the proportions from each region have to have some balance, but my issue is with the fact that teams in the district really have no control over the teams that may possibly win awards at other events, but are punished for it anyway. If a team at a regional happens to lose to a district team, they should "suffer the consequences" so to speak, and not the teams who were not even there.
It's already become much harder for districts teams to travel, and while I can respect the work that went into this system and support a lot of it, I feel like this is only making that specific issue worse.