Frank Answers Fridays: Expanded Championship Qualification

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by compwiztobe

To be clear, I don't mean to belittle the efforts of your team or any other in a rural area where travel, fundraising, and local growth are all more difficult. I've been very impressed with what 2614 has accomplished in the last 7 years.

However, I'd like to point that you say "even bigger disadvantage" and that you will be "paying even more," and this is what I was trying to address. You are not paying any more for your events just because someone somewhere else is paying less. District expansion does not make things worse for teams outside districts, only better for teams inside districts. You (and us) always had to pay 8-10 grand for two events, and this number won't go up with district expansion. Their number just goes down, so how is that anything but good?

The edge case is when all your event options are lost to the district, in which case opt-ins should be a possibility.

You paid 8-10k to FIRST. You also paid for travel costs. As more districts close off regionals to you your travel costs will, likely, go up.