Regional Space Shortage

[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by Coach Norm

An 80 field tournament gives teams at smaller tournaments a great chance to win awards ie, Chairman's, Engineering Inspiration, Rookie All Star.

Dallas had a double tournament under one roof two years ago. This provided more teams a tournament while still allowing 2 sets of winners for all of the awards. It also provided the teams with the ability to see more teams at one location. I do realize this does mean additional cost due to two fields, larger venue, etc.

Two regionals at one time also means you need twice the queuing crew, twice the judges, twice the awards. A double field event (single regional) could be added today for Lone Star 2014 and not really change anything. You would need more volunteers but not double the volunteers. It does decrease teams chances of winning awards but that seems like an okay price to pay while we are working through this problem. I would prefer a double regional but that also means we would have to figure out how to divide teams that are already registered for the event.

The long term answer to this problem is the expansion of the district system but that's not something we can do for the 2014 system.

Also moving events doesn't really help the capacity problem just the choice problem. I was disappointed that Bayou and Lone Star is the same weekend but I also know that there is nearly nothing that the RDs can do, most of the time they struggle to even get the weekend they can get. When we move to the district system it should be much easier to get High School Gym dates than it is to get convention center dates.