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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FIRST Adds District Event Model Alternative to FRC Program

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Originally Posted by Mr. Pockets View Post
Mea culpa, I forgot that there were three competitions and not just the two districts. I was guesstimating that the cost of travel and board for two districts wouldn't be as bad as travel, board, and additional cost of going to a regional. Forgot about states though.
Actually the cost of traveling down state just 2 times for us, cost more than attending the 2 closest regionals. Coach buses are not cheap, the trip to Traverse City district(which was the closest) was an ~8 hour drive and cost us $2,500 or so for busing and another $800 or so for the hotel there. Also being so far away the added savings of an extra day didn't happen for us(district events were only 2 days comps). We still had to get there a day early and leave a day later, we couldn't just drive to the venue each day and sleep in our own beds like 90% of the teams got to, if they planned their events correctly.
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