Registration 2013

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by PVCpirate

Michigan should get more CMP slots, but it shouldn't be done strictly by percentage of Michigan teams in FRC = percentage of Michigan teams at CMP, simply because that's not how it's done anywhere else. 6 teams qualify at a regional regardless of the size of the regional. I would think a fair way to do it(for Michigan and MAR) would be to come up with a number of teams for an "average regional", and base the numbers on that. For example, if we say the average regional has 50 teams and Michigan has 216 teams, 216/50 = about 4 average regionals, 6x4=24 slots.

This is exactly it. When Michigan went to districts in 2009, they were given the equivalent number of slots as they had previously with regionals. 3 regionals x 6 slots = 18 slots. I believe MAR did the same thing when they started.

What hasn't been addressed with the district system yet is how that increases with team growth. Michigan has many more teams now than when they started, and had they still been in a regional setup, they probably would have added at least one, maybe two more regionals by now, because the team base has grown and can support it. Right now they're still stuck with the same 3-regional equivalent. Fast growing regions like Texas, California and Washington have all expanded their events:

Texas: 2009 - 2 events, 2013 - 3 events
California: 2009 - 4 events, 2013 - 6 events
Washington: 2009 - 1 event, 2013 - 3 events

This means that those states/regions are qualifying more teams through regionals than they were several years ago, proportional to the team growth in the state. Michigan is not, because they have been fixed at 18 slots since 2009, regardless of the team growth and increase in the number of districts in the state.