
20-02-2015, 18:32
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Scapegoat Mentor
AKA: Alex Stout
 FRC #2614 (MARS)
Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Rookie Year: 2008
Location: Morgantown, WV
Posts: 393
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Re: Ohio going to Districts?
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Originally Posted by AdamStockton
With the expansion of the district model to new areas, you create the issue of "non-district" or regional teams becoming more and more isolated and limited in the events that those teams can compete at. For example, 1507 commonly competes in Ohio for our travel regional. If Ohio (and possibly western PA) goes to districts next season, that cuts our list of reasonable locations in half.
Hopefully, this new "mini-district" concept that Indiana is piloting this year is part of the solution to this issue. Hopefully some of these lesser populated areas that are being sectioned off by larger districts can move to the district model as well.
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My thoughts exactly. Plus, it sets up a catch-22. It's increasingly more difficult/expensive for "regional" teams to travel, thus making it harder to sustain and start up new teams, but it is like this because there are not enough teams in the area. It's essentially punishing non-district areas for not having enough teams, but making things more difficult for those teams.
Districts are already at a huge cost advantage over everyone else, this just ads fuel to the fire.
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