Event Structure

[ArtemusMaximus]

Originally Posted by Rachel Lim

According to the thread "Ohio going to Districts?", almost all of FIRST will be in districts by 2017, so if you'll be starting with FLL or any other program, you won't have to deal with figuring out what's the difference.

Also, I believe districts / regionals are only for FRC. FTC qualification is explained here, and goes from qualifiers to State Champs to Super Regionals to Champs. From their website, FLL seems to only have qualifiers -> champs (and smaller ones only have champs).

FIRST is not as developed in Canada as it is in US. According to http://www.thebluealliance.com/event/2015abca there are only 33 teams in our regional competition. 5 of them are from US and 1 from Mexico.
Another good/bad point is that 15 out of 33 teams are 5000+, which means plenty of earlier teams are dropping out. I don't know the reasons, but rookie team from our city that seeded 4th last year is not competing this year.
So it's slow to gain momentum.

According to rationale in the thread you posted, we may stay as Regional for some time.