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New FIRST competition structure in Michigan
Read the announcement here.
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Re: New FIRST competition structure in Michigan
Also, an FAQ page is available. Direct link to the announcement on the FIRST homepage here.
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Re: New FIRST competition structure in Michigan
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We have to cut down on some spending over the next few seasons, and one of those things is the amount of regionals that we can attend, keeping distance in mind. With events closer to home, we wouldn't have to worry about hotel fees and other costs associated with traveling to distant regionals. |
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This could be interesting... It's more like traditional sports. At the same time, you can have other events ("open" events, if the new Regional system works out) that any team can attend (the ones outside Michigan), kind of like how the National League plays the American League and NL West plays NL East or NL Central on a regular basis, to keep things interesting.
I think FIRST might have something there! Now if it works... It's also going to make Fantasy FIRST extra fun. |
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Re: New FIRST competition structure in Michigan
I guess we won't be going to West Michigan this year like we thought.
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Re: New FIRST competition structure in Michigan
I would like to know the 7 competition sites. Kettering University, home of the rookie regional, will probably be a site. What is going to be the championship event, will it be housed in Eastern Michigan, where GLR takes place, or Grand Valley where WMR takes place? What will become of the other two regionals? I would love to hear what sites these are going to be held at. It is weird that these competitions will be for only Michigan teams, look at all of the teams that would not have been able to compete at Michigan regionals this year: 71, 2171, 888, 63, 291, and others. I am not completely sold on it yet, but we will see as more info comes out.
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Re: New FIRST competition structure in Michigan
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Re: New FIRST competition structure in Michigan
Fantasy First would be cool, no more fantasy baseball.
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Re: New FIRST competition structure in Michigan
The Season Long league is taking signups now. See the appropriate thread.
FAQ, Jack, FAQ. Detroit and WMR are district; GLR is the State Championship for this year. Kettering will be a district event. (Points 14 and 15 in the FAQ document linked to farther up the page.) Last edited by EricH : 30-07-2008 at 15:37. |
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I like the idea as it will hopefully allow for teams to attend more events, and as long as there are also at least some traditional regionals teams will still be able to travel around to meet teams from other regions of the country.
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Re: New FIRST competition structure in Michigan
I think this is a good move for FIRST in Michigan.
Also, Michigan FIRSTers are undertaking an important and potentially difficult experiment, from which the whole FIRST community is likely to benefit in years beyond 2009. |
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Why are there sixteen districts if there will be only seven competitions?
Edited: ...or is it that of the sixteen district events, seven are limited only to teams from Michigan? It reads, "the state will be divided into 16 districts that lead to an April 2009 Michigan State Championship. The Michigan pilot will also include seven district evens in which on Michigan teams can compete within the state." This is written poorly. Last edited by Madison : 30-07-2008 at 15:44. |
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Re: New FIRST competition structure in Michigan
The sixteen districts are geographic divisions to aid in planning team growth within the state.
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From what I read they get to play in two events for one fee and only have to pay extra for the State Championship and whatever outside regionals they choose. Is this correct?
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Re: New FIRST competition structure in Michigan
That is correct.
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