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Originally Posted by Michael Hill
If anyone does, it would be Jim Zondag
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Attendance Summary from 2014 Season.
In Michigan, we had a total of 47 available 3rd play slots last year out of a total of 600 season district play slots. 41 were claimed, 6 went unclaimed. 4 of the leftover spot were at Escanaba, which is our remotest event, so this is understandable.
This 47 available was higher than normal. As we grow we have to forecast district capacity early in the fall to secure venues. We add capacity in units of 40. Last year, the State grant created a flood of new teams in the fall. We added capacity on speculation and ended up with a whole extra event worth of capacity. This was a good problem to have, because lots of teams got an extra chance to play. If we somehow had the ability to manage the additional event planning, I think every team would benefit from playing 3 times.
Our growth of FiM last year was more than the entire rest of the US combined. The MI State grant program made enrollment nearly free for many teams.
FIRST can take a strong hint here:
Reduced enrollment costs = increased growth.
Dean asks us all to increase growth every year, but when with FIRST reduce enrollment costs?
