The District System

[Carolyn_Grace]

Originally Posted by dodar

That makes a lot of sense; but I do believe that if you asked most robotics kids if they wanted 20-24 guaranteed matches w/ possibly more in eliminations and have a chance at a state championship berth(adding in 10-12 more guaranteed matches w/ possibly more in eliminations) and then possibly a world championship berth vs. 9 matches with a chance at a world championship berth, I would bet 9/10 times they would pick the 1st choice. And that 1 time would be the kid who are in their 4th year and hasn't been to the World Championship yet.

I'm not sure what you are trying to say with this hypothetical prediction.

I definitely prefer the opportunity of two district events over one Regional, but I'm not sure what that's saying about it being "fair."

Should Districts be just as expensive as Regionals just to make it "fair?" That seems like backwards logic to me.

Especially as FiM does not see most (any?) of the money that teams pay toward the FiM State Championship event. How "fair" is that? FiM teams are paying $5,000 towards an event and the money isn't even used to run that event?

If we want to talk "fair" in financial terms, then it would be interesting to see what Regionals are using money from outside teams' registration fees.