Ohio going to Districts?

[Alex2614]

Originally Posted by TDav540

I don't really have any idea about what they would do, but just as speculation it wouldn't surprise me if they gave a state or pair of states a regional (The Dakota Regional?). Either that, or they might allow the teams in that state to join part of a nearby district series that suites them.

Wouldn't surprise me either, albeit it would make me angry. I would hope they would be allowed to compete at a nearby district. But as I said above, using the example of here in WV, it is already hard enough on us to start teams that have enough money to travel to regionals (when other teams have much cheaper events that are much closer). If they leave WV out, there is nowhere else for us to go. This is something that I'm deeply concerned about because with only 4 teams, we can't support our own district. I don't want to be stuck only being able to travel to the Dakotas or Canada because everyone around us is in districts and we aren't allowed to compete there.

It's like a catch-22. You need a bunch of teams to start a district, but when you make it harder and harder every year for those teams to travel, and make t cheaper and easier for everybody else in FIRST, you won't see team growth in those places. We will have to tell new teams in WV "oh you have to pay 5,000 to go to one event 10 hours away, but everybody else gets two closer events for the same price."

(I hope it doesn't sound like I'm lashing out on any one particular person. This is just a subject that makes me angry sometimes and honestly quite scared).