Micro-District Model

[IKE]

While I have thought about this a few times, I wanted to start a new thread on an idea I have for more remote areas of FIRST in the context of a possible competition format.
Micro District.
I for one love the district model, but understand that you really need an area of about 100 teams to do a Michigan or MAR style "region". What about going smaller. I have posted in the past about options for a 60 team area, but I would like to extrapolate that down even smaller.
What about a 30 team Region. This region would then be comprised of Micro district events.
For a 30 team region, you could garuantee 2 events for each team and do 3 events with 20 teams at each event. This would essentially be a 1 Day event. Teams would do load-in and inspection Friday afternoon/night. Saturday Morning would open at 7:30am, have opening Ceremony at 8:30am, and then matches start at 9:00. I would target 9 matches per team (thus 20x9 or 180 slots). Assuming 3 vs. 3, this would require 30 matches. I do not think a 6 minute turn would be possible as almost 1/3 of the entrants are on the field at the same time (6/20). With an 8 minute average turn, this would require 4 hours of playing. I would actually spread this out a bit with 1 hour of play, and then a 15 minute break provided field faults have not caused that sort of delay. I would also follow "qualification with a purposeful 15 minute break for scouting/pick list formation (yes, that is a tight window). This would mean that alliance selection would start 5 hours after matches start. or 2pm. I would only have 4 alliance captains. After a 30 minute strategy/prep break, Eliminations would start roughly 2:45. Since you are only doing semi-finals and Finals essentially, elims should be under 2 hours. Thus finishing elims by 5pm. Then conduct award ceremony and wrap up.

These micro districts would then have a "Regional Championship" where all 30 teams would be invited, and then birth the traditional 6-ish teams to the World Championship. My recommendation would be to go from 9 to 12 Qualifying matches and make it a 2+ day event.

This 4 event region would scale fairly well from around 30 teams to up to 45 (micro districts would have 30 teams). Much above 48 teams in a region, and I would recommend looking at bumping the 4 events into a "District System" with the 2-day events and a full field of 8 alliances (or possibly a 6 alliance system where #1 & #2 get automatic bids to the Semis). Around 60 (plus or minus some). The full District system of 3 district events of 40 leading to a Regional Championship of 60 begins to be a better model.

You would likely need a better name than "Micro-district" as the it reminds me of the Cringe worthy "Regional Qualifier" name that floated around a while for the "District" Events. Maybe District is still the right name (as there are some Regionals smaller than some Disrict events)

In this model, there will be a lot of playing against/with the same teams. I Know this is "not desireable", but I think I would rather play 20-30 matches (2x(9Q+elims)+12Q+E) with a lot of repeats than play 8 matches total...

With a 4 events (3 Districts and a regional championship) running events in the odd weeks (1,3,5 and champs in 7) should allow for a cadence that teams and volunteers would appreciate.

Thoughts? I would especially be interested in hearing from International teams like Brazil (which sort of did this with the Brazil Regional Way back), Mexico, Isreal, and Australia.