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Originally Posted by swootton
We attended an off season event in Yonkers, NY a couple weeks ago and were shocked by the differences between us being in a district system and all the other teams that are in a regional system. For us it was our 6th event, for all the others it was either their 2nd or 3rd. All we heard all day was comments about our robot not breaking and being very refined. All the teams wanted to find out more about the district system and most if not all wished that NY would go to a district model after playing with and talking to us.
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I figured id talk a bit about this metric
To start at the event there were 13 teams
2 of them are in the District system
4055 being one of them was ranked #1 and this was their 6th event
the other was 4361 who was ranked 10th and this was their 3rd event
Out of the NY (non-district teams)
rank #2 - 4122 (4th event) Attended 2 regionals and champs off waitlist
rank #3 3419 (4th event) Attended 2 regionals and champs
rank #4 2869 (2nd event) Attended 1`regional
rank #5 335 (2nd event) Attended 1 regional
rank #6 5943 (2nd event) Attended 1 regional
rank #7 371 (2nd event) Attended 1 regional
rank #8 1880 (3rd event) Attended 2 regionals
rank #9 333 (4th event) Attended 2 regionals and champs off waitlist
rank #11 4528 (2nd event) Attended 1 regional
rank #12 5123 (2nd event) Attended 1 regional
rank #13 369 (2nd event) Attended 1 regional
It also should be mentioned 4122 and 333 ended up winning the event with both teams having this as their 4th event
So, aside from a few anomaly's it is pretty clear events make teams better
and lets look at some numbers
4055 paid $10,000 for their 4 official events
4122, 3419, and 333 paid $13,000 for their 3 official events If those teams wanted an extra event before champs they would be paying $17,000 for the same amount of events that 4055 got for 10k.
I do not care how quality the event is $7,000 extra is not worth it.