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Re: [FRC Blog] Frank Answers Fridays: June 13, 2014

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Originally Posted by Thad House View Post
I know that in the PNW they actually sent invitations out to the top 40 teams after week 5, because those teams were mathematically guaranteed a spot, with only one week 6 event taking place.

The main timing problems for us come between the DCMP and Worlds. Since we are way out on the other corner of the country, driving to worlds is not an option. The only chance we get is flying, and by that time tickets are very expensive. For us moving the state championship earlier would help a little, but even a week does not equal much different costs in airfare, so I don't know what else we could do out here to reduce those costs.
I heard something about PDX tickets being too troublesome to reserve for FIRSTWA/ORFIRST - that's why the only reserved tickets available were out of Seattle. I think for the district model to really work, they'd need to reserve tickets for everyone - buying tickets on that kind of short notice (or alternatively driving obscenely early up to Seattle) isn't realistic for a lot of teams.
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