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Unread 06-04-2010, 04:32
SavtaKenneth SavtaKenneth is offline
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Re: District/Regional Format

Me and a couple of friends discussed this a few days ago and we thought the district system would be good to implement in Israel. One of the main characteristics of FIRST Israel is that the nearest regional for us, except for the Israeli one is a 10 hour flight away.

That means no Israeli team competes in more than one event per season because of the prohibitive cost of airfare. Also Israel is quite a small country (six hour drive from the southern most point to the northern most point) so doing bag&tag events shouldn't be too hard. Our thought was that it'd be a way to make the Israeli competition better because It'd give teams more matches to play and more of the FIRST experience.

The main problem we saw with this is that there are too few teams in Israel (55 or so) for the model to actually work. What do you think is the minimum amount of teams to implement the district system?
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