Indiana going to Districts for 2015

[Allison K]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

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IMO the current setup disadvantages regional-only teams. The spreadsheet you linked to doesn't tell the whole tale - Minnesota, for example, didn't get all of those 24 slots. Some went to out of state teams in Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Hawaii, etc. Minnesota only sent 16 teams to champs this past year. So while our state might have 8.56% of all FRC teams, our Actual CMP % was 4%.

District team's shouldn't be allowed to play at regionals unless regional teams can play (and earn their way to CMP) at districts as well. We're closing off significant areas of the country and making it harder and harder for some areas that are still doing regionals to send appropriate representation to champs. If FIRST is really moving towards a representational model for CMP, they need to figure out how to make that work for areas that still do regionals as well.

Fair point, but that's why I also suggested removing the qualification incentive for district teams that attend regionals. District teams already have to wait to register for regionals until open registration, so we aren't taking spots away from teams who need or want them, we are just filling in empty spaces. If we were allocated proportional spots in our district, I wouldn't mind it if district teams weren't allowed to qualify for worlds at a regional (with any spaces earned by a district team at a regional creating a wildcard for the next most deserving non-district team). I suppose that would get awkward with Chairman's award spots, but it overall seems like a more balanced approach.

I do recall Frank's blog post on proportional allocation of spots, but thus far they've only mentioned intent. Hopefully that ends up being the case.