[Nemo]

Overall I'm very happy to see that there's a common points system for districts. As has been noted, people should take a step back and realize that inter-district play is the big payoff here. People have been talking about the problem of being locked into your districts for years, and knowing that FIRST wants to open that up in 2015 is great news. I'm assuming we'll eventually make our way into a district system, and I'm very happy to know that we'll still be able to choose which direction we travel and switch it up from year to year.

Giving rookies a slight point advantage without handing them a free pass seems like the right move. And I like the small second year team bonus. All this does is make it a bit more likely that some rookies will appear in the district championship events. Overall, it's a much better system than automatically qualifying a rookie at every event and ending up with 1/6 rookies at the next level of competition, regardless of how well those rookies competed.