Thread: MI is the best?
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Re: MI is the best?

I think Michigan is still probably one of the strongest regions in FIRST. Yes we did not put quite as many teams onto Einstein, but the depth of the state continues to grow. By my count, 52 teams from Michigan were either captains or selected for the elimination rounds at the championship. This is the THIRD year in a row where there were more teams from Michigan playing in the elimination rounds at championship than there were playing at the Michigan State Championship.

I do think that increasing the number of districts has hurt some of the upper level teams in terms of competitiveness on the world level. I thought the biggest event ever season was always the Troy district because it would pit five or six of the best teams in the state against each other and you would see the first glimpses of the highest levels of a game being played. But the explosive growth in Districts has built a very robust second and third tier of teams that did not exist even three years ago.
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