KC Regional Considering District Model

[Mongai]

Originally Posted by CalTran

THIS DOES NOT REFLECT THE THOUGHTS OF TEAM 2410

I wasn't a huge fan when Mr. Ritter told me about it. I love the idea of up to 20(!) qualification matches, but I wasn't so much a fan of splitting it up over 2 weekends. You make a good argument for the plan, but I just didn't like the proposal. It seems much too cumbersome to spread Greater KC over 2 (possibly non-consecutive) weekends just for one competition. It also meant that suddenly instead of 6 weeks to choose from, we would have this and then pick from the remaining 4 weeks of competition, and keep in mind that our robot has to be working and back before the eliminations. Maybe it's just how familiar I am with the Michigan system. I like the district system and all, but I just don't think it's quite time for the Kansas City area to transition.

Greater KC was an amazing home grown event where we had our closely knit teams and the occasional out of regional-er whom we would warmly welcome and, for lack of a better term, assimilate into our home. If it switched to the proposed system, then we would have to take a serious look at attending.

In addition, teams like 935 would have to spend twice as much for gas and hotels (total of 12 hour drive time!). Funny thing is, KC is our closest regional.