[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by plnyyanks

Well, there is a silver lining of the scheduling issues in upstate NY this year: we can grow our volunteer base since we have to staff two events (plus Pittsburgh) the same week. That's a plus for the march towards districts, I guess



Typically, both Tech Valley and FLR are pretty small events. Tech Valley only had 36 teams last year, and I believe FLR was at about 40. Can't go much smaller than that.

The A/V requirements are set by FIRST, and there is less leeway with regionals than with district events. The official regional quality standards are here, I wonder how much those can be bent...

Multiple regionals is an interesting idea, although I'm not sure FIRST would agree to the additional logistics + SRE costs + field trucking + etc. Here's a thought, though: this is all basically like running a district, but still calling them regionals. What if there was an arrangement a region could make with FIRST to allow their local organization to run the state's regionals for a few years (buy a field, do transport, staff events, etc) during the transition period to districts. That would let the region get its logistics up and running before they "officially" move to the district system.

FLR had 50 teams last year.