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Originally Posted by DonShaw
I am going to make a statement here about what I perceive districts should be. The events should be smaller than what we currently do in GA. The events should be no more than 24 teams, is the concept of district smaller events with more of them? Look at Michigan, they hold them in High Schools and can do that due to the smaller size.
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Not sure what world you're living in, but every single Michigan event has about 40 teams when all is said and done. It's your choice to think a 24 team event is better than a 40 team event, but we (both your team and mine) got no extra matches at the 25-team Albany than we did at 40-team Columbus. Even more than that, once alliance selection got to the end, there was very little depth to pick a third robot. I personally like picking from quality teams to round out my alliance.
And yeah, the idea is to make smaller events and have more of them. That's how the district model works.
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Originally Posted by DonShaw
We all heard more plays per dollar by going to district and I did not see that come about, for many teams the chance to qualify for Worlds is higher. I would like to see some other teams show there cost per play from last year. Personally I believe there are teams that can afford the registration that includes two events but the travel cost only allows them to participate in one.
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I don't see how your first sentence relates the two statements. I know that G3 got more plays for the cost, and I know that any team which attended one or even two regionals got more also. And I know the chance of going to Worlds for most teams in the state went WAY up when going to districts. Sure, the cost to get to worlds is higher. But that has been discussed endlessly and I'm not sure how the location of the district events makes much difference from that end.
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Originally Posted by DonShaw
I do believe some of the holdbacks to having more events is the cost to GAFirst for fields and equipment and not to mention the limited number of volunteers they pull from.
If the state DOE ever got on board then the high school avenue may come to play but without their support I do not see it happening.
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Uh yeah. Not to mention that we don't really need more events? Maybe a fifth (next year, I think), but otherwise we're fine.
The DOE on board would definitely help, but by no means is it a requirement. It just takes some teams working together with local partners to put an event on at the local HS.