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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
Speaking as one of the individuals actively working to increase key volunteers (specifically LRI's) across MN... it's not as easy as people seem to think.
Lets put it this way... would you want to attend a district with a head ref who got the job because someone was desperately needed for the position, or one who got the job because they had been reffing for years and were identified as a good fit for the position?
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To be clear, I'm not claiming that it's easy (it's pretty obvious that it's harder than I can fathom or try to solve through writing words on the internet). I just think that it might be the case that Minnesota isn't organized in a way that makes it easy to train volunteers quickly (both inside and outside regionals). Add that to the exterior perception that there's a lot of robot politics going on that make it difficult to volunteer in a meaningful way, and at least from the outside looking in, the path seems unclear at best for how we'll actually get to districts, regardless of all the fantastic people currently involved with volunteering at FRC events here.