Frank Answers Fridays: Expanded Championship Qualification

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Libby K

I am allllll sorts of jealous.

For my team more-or-less in the center of MAR, one hour gets us to one of our districts. Two hours gets us to most of the events, but still not the the DCMP.

Compounded with our silly school rules about travel distance/hotel necessity, it makes districts just as expensive (if not more) than regional travel. Just a personal case, as from my understanding most other teams don't have this problem. We're just unlucky with the school rules we're given to deal with.

NE, the longest drive to a district event I had this year was 2.5 hours to Pine Tree. Oddly, the shortest drive I had to a district was 1 hour to Northeastern/DCMP (It's only 40 miles but traffic in Boston is bad). Actually, I'm pretty sure that I live in the hole of the donut when it comes to NEFIRST events because they are all between 1 and 2.5 hours away.