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Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter
If you want to go to more District Events, they're $1000 each. The Distict CMP is $5000 (or 4k or something).
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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.
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Pulled two facts, one to emphasize one to correct.
District Events don't always cost $1000 more. I know in Michigan they were $500.
The second part is true. For certain teams it may increase travel costs. However, when I mapped out where events compared to the previous year's teams (which is what they logically should be based on) most places did pretty good.
PNW -
http://beyondinspection.org/post/997...ific-northwest
FIM -
http://beyondinspection.org/post/972...rict-stats-fim
Indiana -
http://beyondinspection.org/post/997...-indiana-first
NE -
http://beyondinspection.org/post/997...ts-new-england
MAR -
http://beyondinspection.org/post/997...tlantic-region
PNW does the worst with forcing one team to drive 242 miles to its second closest event. And that team likely had to go that far for any events prior.
Teams at the weird outer edges of Districts (857 in FiM) get hurt the worst because it's shorter to travel to Wisconsin than to a second district.
Having done Districts -> Regionals -> Districts over the last couple years, as a team I prefer districts. As a spectator I prefer regionals.