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Originally Posted by matthewdenny
I am completely unfamiliar with that format. How many events would a team need to register for? What do the costs look like?
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'Districts' essentially makes the lowest tier of competition broader ('District Events' replace 'Regionals), and adds a tier in the middle ('District Championsips').
Each team gets to go to 2 District events (capped at 40 teams) for the same $5000/$6000 registration fee that got them 1 Regional before. If you want to go to more District Events, they're $1000 each. The Distict CMP is $5000 (or 4k or something).
In terms of cost to compete per event, it's far cheaper... For teams that have only gone to 1 event before, and aren't in an FRC-dense area, it can introduce extra travel costs though.
What I think is best about it, is it makes the way teams advance far more intuitive... you get points for your wins (or rank this year) in qualification matches, for winning awards, for getting picked in alliance selection, for where you end up in eliminations, and for being a rookie or 2nd-year team (to help 'equalize' the playing field and to help young teams see DCMP and CMP). This may sound confusing, but it ends up advancing the best teams in the region exceptionally well. Far better than the 'crap-shoot' of winning a regional or Chairmans (i.e., being 1, 2, or 24th best robot or being single best in a 10-minute interview, an essay, or a video).
Incredibly few people say 'Gee, I wish we went back to the regional system' once they've experienced the district system.