Proof that districts work: PNW

[Lil' Lavery]

Here's a thread I created in 2009 to talk about FiM's success that year on Einstein. It should provide some interesting perspective based on the past few years. With more years and other regions, we have plenty more data since then. Additionally, you'll notice that the two factors I broke out specifically at the end have since been adopted outside of the district model.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=77045

Originally Posted by Jscout11

I have to somewhat disagree. There were still a good number of teams unable to manipulate the ball at MAR champs and was certainly not at the championship level.

Not sure if I agree with your assessment. There were certainly teams that didn't have effective ground loading methods, but almost every team at MAR championship could register a possession from the human player. That's a large part of what led to the creation of the "double exchange" strategy (firing a ball immediately back to the human player after getting a possession), which in turn was very popular this past weekend (including 2590's alliance using it to reach Einstein).