[EricH]

Originally Posted by JB987

Your suggestions are plausible, Eric. Would the changes be more workable if there was an adoption of a universal point system including district and regional performances?

Sssshh! Don't tell them about that part!


Yep, I not only see a universal point system making changes more workable, but also more LIKELY. We're seeing it already for interdistrict play.


The other thing I can see coming is MORE interdistrict play, followed in the long run by a total lifting of travel restrictions into/out of district systems. Attend event, earn points applied to home district if you have one (or home regional block--any remaining regionals for teams that don't have districts would theoretically block together for X spots at any given championship awarded by spot on the points list if you weren't one of the "standard six" qualifiers), attend home DCMP if there is one, and go on up the CMP ladder as far as your points will take you. If that happens, I think we'll see a sudden explosion of FRC inspiration from within, and possibly a bunch more teams traveling a ways.



Just so folks are clear, I've been thinking almost from the split announcement that this is the way things are going in the long haul--and I've come right out and said it, too, in multiple places. Some tidbits out of the town hall meeting further reinforced that thought. But I'm not sure if this is going to be 5 years out or 10 years out or farther or closer.