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Re: Current Districts Map. Who is next?

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Originally Posted by notmattlythgoe View Post
By having your smaller events spread out you are also able to tap into a larger volunteer supply. It's more difficult to convince people to travel and pay for a hotel to go volunteer for an event than it is to get them to volunteer for one in their own back yard.

According to the MN numbers last year you'd need 11 events based on a 40 team max per event.
I agree. See below.

MN 192
WI 41
IA 9
Dakotas 5
Total Teams 247

Max Number of Teams per Event
40

Number of Events Needed
12.35

Number of spots (13 events): 520

Volunteer quality would suffer for the first year (like it has in just about every other area that has transitioned to districts) but it would recover after that.

More importantly, what MN is lacking currently is a non-profit running FRC in the state. We have a few organizational issues we need to fix before anything else.
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