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Originally Posted by Chief Hedgehog
They do include this paragraph on the Website:
"As noted above, our primary goal is to ensure teams have the ability to attend their “home” Championship, which in most cases will be closer to where they live than their non-home Championship, thereby hopefully minimizing travel costs and transit time. However, we recognize that some teams may desire to attend their non-home Championship for a variety of reasons. Hence, we are working to finalize a mechanism whereby FRC teams can elect to attend their non-home Championship. However, to maintain balance between the two events, not every team who asks may be able to move to their “non-home” Championship. Specifically, FIRST may limit the quantity of teams allowed to change from one event to the other for various reasons. As noted above, details on this program are still being worked out and will be communicated at a future date. Due to the processes by which FTC, FLL and FLL Jr. teams qualify for Championship, those Programs will require teams to attend their home Championship." |
My hope is that they take the simplest solution here:
STEP 1: Team that wants to jump pays their registration for their home Championship.
STEP 2: They email FIRST (or select in TIMS, or whatever) to indicate they want to switch. They go on a first-come-first-served list. They know where they are in the list, and there's a button to give up their place on the list.
STEP 3: They wait for a team to perform Step 2 going in the other direction.
STEP 4: They're switched.