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Originally Posted by Sunshine
Eric, it's hard for me to accept your argument that 857 was only successful because of the change to districts. We both know team leadership, positive direction and focus plays into team success.
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Team 857 is/was ran by college students. The only consistent leadership the team has/had was the high school faculty member, and he does/did very little in regards to the direction the team went.
Each year the team would have a new college student leader, and the team would be run a little bit different. So yes I would say that districts is a huge reason 857 is have the success they are seeing the since 2009. Being able to compete 2-4 times (DCMP and CMP) add a ton of time for the team to interact and learn from other teams. Especially the amazing teams in MI. 857 used to only go to the Wisconsin regional and then go home. Not once in the years I was on the team did we win an award or go to elims at Wisconsin.
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Originally Posted by Bruceb
First let me admit that I don't know anything about district events. One of the things my team always looks forward to in going to a regional is playing with teams from around the country and around the world. We have played with teams from pretty much every state, Canada, Isreal, Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, China and Australia. How does that shake out in a district model?
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Team are still able to go to traditional regionals, there is also inter district play as well, and might I add Im pretty sure the interdistrict price tag is MUCH cheaper than going to a traditional regional as well.
Look at 125 thanks to districts they go to 4-5 comps before they even get to DCMP or CMP. The entrance price tag for teams to go to 4 or 5 comps for traditional regionals is $17,000-$21,000 in the district model its closer to 6,000 -8,000 depending on which price tag the district has for additional competitions (500 or 1000). Now add actual travel costs to that and its unattainable for 99% of teams.
You want inspiration and excitement for your kids, get them to more competitions.
Districts are also run Fri-Sat or Sat-Sun so mentors have to take less vacation and students miss less schools.