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Originally Posted by DareDad
The bigger issue to me though is keeping it loud. Last year, Minnesota had 4 regionals. The two Duluth regionals are held under one roof, with 123 teams last year in the DECC. The Minneapolis regionals are held in two buildings next door to each other again with 123 teams last year.
Both of those events get real media attention. The local papers and television stations do stories on the events every year. In Duluth, one of the local teams has partnered with the newspaper to put a wrap over the paper during the event so everyone who gets a paper knows what's going on at the DECC that week.
That's not loud, that's LOUD. 
Minnesota would lose that going to districts.
People talk about how districts are awesome because teams get two plays where they'll see maybe 60 or 70 different teams across those events. But in Minnesota there's already 122 other teams at these double regionals. It would be a step backward for teams in Minnesota. |
Sounds like it would make an excellent State Championship.
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Originally Posted by EricH
On the other hand, I rather suspect that a particularly good (read: persuasive) teacher/set of teachers could justify spending the entire week between back-to-back events "down there" in an extended field trip. This would include such items as college visits, some trips to museums of things that might not be available back home, plenty of homework time, and any other items deemed educational by administration, faculty, and parents.
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If you're an Alaskan school new to FRC, are you more likely to approve giving students an entire week off to go to two highschools in Washington, or giving them a single weekend at a big convention center in San Jose/LA/Salt Lake City/wherever?
Districts are great, but they don't belong everywhere, especially not Alaska.