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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
You didn't answer my question. Why should a minority of teams be catered to in the name of "equity," when the most utility is provided by hosting the DCMP nearer to the population center?
This also isn't even touching on financial and scheduling concerns between the various venue options. We don't know for a fact that VCU is even an option for the appropriate weekends for a DCMP (6 or 7).
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The calendar has opened up for those weeks in the past, and the event was on the VCU calendar until FIRST quietly pushed out that the 2015 kickoff would fall on January 9th, pushing the whole season back a week. The dates would be a Week 6 event any other year (like next year). And unless circumstances have changed, finances are not an issue at VCU.
There is something to be said about equality vs balance, which are not always the same thing. District system implementation is meant to cover a number of objectives, and under the spectrum of event location should exist a fulcrum that balances two objectives that can inherently oppose each other. In this case, balance should be found between "growing in underrepresented areas" and "adequately serving existing teams".
I am of the opinion that the locations that have been proposed do balance out pretty well, but YMMV.