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Originally Posted by InFlight
A bunch of those didn't attend Auburn teams were at district championships. It's really a week 5 event issue.
If you look there are a few teams that helped fill out an event the prior week, and thus couldn't attend as it would have been a fourth event. 1983 & 5803, others?
Some Teams may have opted not to travel remote to what would have been a third event when they were already qualified for districts.
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You're right, the set of teams assigned to Auburn as their 2017 home that didn't earn points there last year is very competitive bunch.
Is there a rule against doing a 4th district event? This is the first I've heard. I could definately see nobody wanting to do a 4th though. It seems that the two teams that you mentioned (1983 and 5803) are the only two to which this would have applied.
Interestingly, all of the those teams that weren't signed up for Auburn last year went to at least one event that was significantly further away from them, either Central Washington or Philomath.
This is probably a good time to add: My team has gone to Auburn the last two years in a row and very much enjoyed it both times. They did a total rebuild of the facility before last year and it came out beautifully. The only downside is the distance between the pits and the gym, but in my mind this makes it good practice for worlds. We probably would have signed up again this year except that we were wary of doing 3 travel events.