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Re: District vs Regional

I was referring to minimum registration costs to go to CMP. My championship registration cost was $4000, I realize now it's $5000. So 1 regional+CMP = $5000+$5000=$10000. 2 districts+DCMP+CMP = $5000+$4000+$5000 = $14000. Now, I realize that plenty of teams (671 in 2013) go to multiple regionals, and for them that district scenario is the same or more than they pay in registration fees every year. But that was not the majority: in the same year, 1541 teams only went to 1 regional.

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Originally Posted by Bob Steele View Post
It is really no different than some of the qualifying students do for athletic events....
The difference is it happens for sports teams no questions asked. In my experience, if a sports team at a high school qualifies for a higher level of competition, they go. End of story. At my old school, if the soccer coach went to the school board and said that the team qualified for the New England Championship, and needed to miss 2 days of school the next week, the school would get them a bus, excuse the absences, and make sure everyone in the school knew that our team was going to the New England Championship. If our robotics adviser did the same, the absences may or may not have been excused, we wouldn't have had a bus, and everything would have been a hassle. Other places might have it better, but it wasn't "no different" for us.
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