[marshall]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

I personally feel that MAR and FIRST should actually ask these Jersey and other MAR teams why they travel outside of their area for culture awards. Much of what I've heard isn't always "Oh it is easier to win in X regional." What I've heard is that teams feel unfairly judged at their home events a lot of times. There is a lot of politics and bias in MAR, and I believe this is something MAR should discuss and address.

Perception is hard to break. I've seen it a few times where teams say "X event is biased against out-of-state teams". It lead us to create this a few years ago:

https://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/s...d.php?t=129949

I can't seem to access that document now for whatever reason but it was a comparison of in-state vs out-of-state awards given out at the regional events. It contained some interesting data. Would be good to see someone write a TBA version of that to automatically pull that data together.

EDIT: Would also be cool to see something correlating distance from home and awards somehow.