[Knufire]

Originally Posted by logank013

I see what you're saying. Event placement is key. In Indiana, our district event placements were pretty well placed. We had 1 event in Indianapolis and 2 events that were about an hour north of Indianapolis with the CMPS in Indianapolis. I know that a few teams never stayed at a hotel all season. Now of course, Indiana is a small state and has many highways making travel easy. I think the hope for the district system is as more teams join the district, more events get added. I know as districts get populated, getting to two district events within drivable distance for each day becomes easier. So to start out, districts might seem bad but the whole point of disticts is to populate the area with FRC teams like in Michigan. From where Cyber Blue is in Indiana, 2 of the events were a 30 minute drive and 2 were 1.5 hours. Where a team like ElkLogics up in Elkhart Indiana, 2 events would have been 2.5 hours and 2 were 1.5 hours. I'm guessing that a lot of the district placement has to do with where most of the FRC teams are in the state. So as the whole state becomes populated with FRC teams, there should be more events causing hopefully, closer events to each team. Does that make sense? Hopefully it did Thanks for reading.

It's a long process. Indiana needs to see a ~20% growth in teams before we hit the mark where we need a 4th district event. Given our growth rate over the past few years, that's a huge jump. While districts do provide more incentive to start teams, it's not the only issue to overcome.