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Originally Posted by Sperkowsky
A train from nyc to Albany costs $42 each way each day. That's 84 dollars per person not to mention that its a 2 and a half hour ride(that's 5 hours of train time per day) it's a logistical nightmare. A nyc event at the javits center (without ftc fll and jr fll you could fit multiple fields and hundreds of teams in there) would make more Sense for the masses but isn't the greatest for the upstate teams even if they are the technical minority.
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I would suggest you take a good hard look at the PNW District model before proclaiming that it won't work for NY...
Money isn't easy to come by for most teams outside of Western Seattle and some locations in Portland. Further, we have a much bigger geographic region than NY AND our DCMP was located at an extreme in Chaney Washington this year. We drove 8 hours for the District Championship and we are located in the northern(ish) part of Oregon (though we are one of the southern most teams in the region),
In the end, districts allows you and your team to get more play for the same amount of money. Plus the potential for an event of much higher quality than a regional AND a somewhat easier way to make it to worlds. So before you say something else along the lines of "you couldn't travel to Rochester because of a 5 hour daily commute" please put some thought into it. For that to work, you would have to leave at 4:30am, and would return to NYC at 10:30pm (if you leave at 8)... 5-6 hours before you have to leave again.... hardly logical.
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Originally Posted by Sperkowsky
think about it
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That single event you are referencing would ONLY be for the DCMP (and probably not at an extreme ie. Rochester) if you are from LI or NYC.... An invitational event that you AREN'T required to attend(nor is your entire team). Some of the normal district events would inevitably be located near LI or NYC.
Please get educated on districts before telling those of us in them to "think about" why they don't work for poorer teams.