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Originally Posted by smistthegreat
It's definitely not that simple, for a few reasons. First, not everybody will make DCMP, and there's no guarantee the same fraction of upstate and downstate teams qualify.
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Here's the thing: Since district points are based on event performance, and for the most part, upstate teams and downstate teams won't attend the same events- there's a good chance a similar percentage of upstate teams and downstate teams will qualify for DCMP. However, based on the location of DCMP, I think a number of teams will decline to attend the event based on cost.
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Originally Posted by AGPapa
Excellent points to consider.
My main point was that 'cost' is a better indicator of where to place the DCMP than 'travel time'. This includes how many teams would need hotels and how much those hotels would cost.
It's definitely more fair to assume an even distribution of qualifying teams than to assume a skewed one.
The map doesn't show too many teams in the Albany or Binghamton areas, but maybe some of them are overlapping. How many teams are within an hour and a half drive of Albany? How many within an hour and a half of Binghamton?
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I want to say there are about 15 current FRC teams within 1.5 hours of Albany or Binghamton.
And I agree about the cost/travel time point for the most part. I guess I didn't understand what you meant at first.
Meaning we'd need to consider how many teams would need hotels, how much each hotel would cost, how will those teams get there (for some teams that means "is there public transit that connects that DCMP location"), and a number of other factors.