[FRC Blog] Inter-District Play for 2015

[MARS_James]

Originally Posted by GKrotkov

Can you explain this a bit more? Because they shouldn't have to deal with teams coming into their districts? I could certainly see this making it harder for some Indiana teams to make it to their district championship, but if the encroaching teams spread out over the district events (taking what events they could get), wouldn't they have about an equal force on each Indiana team?

The making it to district championship is not my issue, my issues are more about the following:

1. Every other district got at least 1 year where it was just that district systems teams with no outsiders coming in, this allowed you to get a realistic look at what would happen if we operated like other highschool sports.
2. It allows the newly formed district committees a year to have some transitional pains and easier contact with all teams competing.
3. Establishing of an identity, you can look at MSC and PNW and see two very distinct "brands" in terms of production value
4. No artificial inflation of volunteer base, if you are a team traveling to a high school gym and have no chance of qualifying to get to Championship I could see several of your members joining up to volunteer at the event. The issue this causes is when Indiana looks back and sees X number of volunteers attended the event they may think that it shows the potential for the next district event to be placed close by as the volunteer base appeared strong.

Those were 4 off the top of my head but If you want more I will probably think of more on my drive home from work