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Originally Posted by MrTechCenter
I believe that Jim Beck stated during the opening ceremonies on the Saturday of the Silicon Valley Regional that there would be 7 regionals in California for 2015 (the new one being in Ventura), and beginning in 2016, California would switch to a "qualifier" system. He didn't want to call it a district system, but it seems that would be the case.
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The likelihood of
FIRST approving something other than the current District System is extremely slim. FIRST had the Michigan and MAR models and then created the current District and Unified Points System based on those experiences and input from the PNW, NE District organizers and other interested parties. The only
potential significant change
might be allowing inter-district play for the 2015 season.
Note Indiana is piloting a mini-district model but the only real difference is the number of teams in the district.
Winning, the objective, the thing you can point to and say "See that? We want to do that. What can we do to make our program better, to improve our chances at that?" is what has grown FIRST from 28 teams in a high school gym to where it is today. - Joe G. [more] 
13-08-2014, 23:17
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