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Originally Posted by lucas.alvarez96
What could motivate the RPC to reject the district model besides the lack of volunteers and extra work?
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There are a lot of behind the scene changes as well when an area moves to the district system. They operate much more autonomously from HQ than when running regional events. It's definitely several times more work for an area to run districts rather than regionals, but the benefits come in the extra playtime for teams and the decreased cost to run the event.
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Originally Posted by novamx3
I was at the mentor roundtable and knowing what you and Jessica were doing with the flyers, I was surprised not to see you there. I can give a first hand account of the meeting but it would have been much more productive if you guys had attended. I agree that an education, for everyone, and every team is needed. I have no problem with the flyer or the fact that you distributed it. But I spent an hour and half talking with Mark Lawrence (half hour one on one, about this topic and these threads specifically). There are some SERIOUS challenges ahead for MN if/when we transition to a district model. No one that I spoke to was against it, but the amount of volunteers is still the sticking point. 5-6 times the number of volunteers are required for a district model. Not to mention key volunteers that we currently "have no bench" of. Think if yoshi was one of the volunteers that got sick this weekend (apparently 4 had to cancel because they got the flu). We would have been scrambling to find someone who can emcee! Not an easy roll to fill in.
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I actually didn't know the mentor roundtable was taking place, as I was just attending the event as a spectator and wasn't receiving the emails that other mentors were prior to the event. Jess was in class on Thursday so she couldn't attend either.
Part of what I was telling teams when I went pit-to-pit was that this is going to be a several year process for Minnesota. I definitely didn't want to give a false impression to teams that this was something that could happen overnight. Manpower was one of the biggest issues I highlighted, both in terms of volunteers and event management. I figured that the RPC was the best group to judge how teams could help contribute to the effort, which is why I didn't want to plant seeds of a separate effort towards districts from what the RPC is already attempting.