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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

5 weeks of events, 40 teams per event, 2 events/week = 400 spots.

That's enough room for 200 teams with only 2 fields. We definitely need more teams and we need teams that will be sustainable for many years.

You could run 200 teams on 2 fields, but that is assuming the following:

• You want to run 2 events all 5 weeks. With the size of Texas is you may want to take a week off between events and state champs to give team a chance to work out travel arrangements.
• You can get a 2 good locations every week. Schedule conflicts do and will happen.
• Every location can hold 40 teams. Many schools are not laid out in a way that is fitting FRC events, so you may end up with events that can only hold 30-35 teams.
• Teams can travel to fill every event. In a state as big as Texas, events will take place in locations that might be able to draw a full 40 (El Paso/McAllen/East Texas)
• No teams will want a 3rd event and FiT does not want the 3rd event money

Originally Posted by jee7s

So, back to the point, until we can sustain teams over 5 or more seasons with regularity, the District question in Texas remains open. With the added pull of resources toward Championship, I think the talk of going to Districts in 2018 is as unlikely as I said the move would be for 2017. Personally, I put the over/under at 2020. Call me a pessimist, but I think the rate of turnover this year coupled with the Houston Championship resource and money draw has pushed out the timeline substantially.

Why do you think that a regional model is better for sustaining teams then a district model would be?