[FRC Blog] Frank Answers Fridays: June 7, 2013

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Originally Posted by Nuttyman54

One of the things I'm interested to see is how the transition will happen. My biggest concern is how they will deal with teams in areas where districts don't make sense, in the interim before they have a standardized model with cross-travel and a way to incorporate teams that don't fit into district regions. For example, PNW and NE are going to districts for 2014, and the Ontario region is likely to change to districts at some point as well. Depending on how the district borders are defined, this could leave teams in Montreal, BC, Alberta and other parts of Canada with at most one "local" event. As more regions move to districts, more pockets will appear where teams exist, but aren't populous enough for their own region, but don't fit well into neighboring regions.

I think the plan is to make sure those teams have a regional that is accessible to them as a local event. I say this because in New England, we have several teams that have almost always come to New England regionals from the Albany, NY area. From discussion in another thread, I heard that these teams were not invited to join the district, but that an Albany regional has been confirmed for 2014.