2015 Texas District Ranks

[Mr V]

Definitely interesting to see. The District System is the future, no two ways about it, the only question is when for a given area so this gives teams a good idea what it would look like. As mentioned because the number of teams per event is lower in the district system those numbers would be skewed a little higher. I think it would mostly effect the middle of the pack teams but overall it would change things radically. The other thing is that for many teams in our area their performance improved at their second event. This will skew things slightly as well, The teams that would have attended their second event earlier would probably do a little better than the teams who attended their first event a little later.

I've found as the second year of the District System has come to a close there is definitely a strategy behind picking your events. Of course for next year we are thinking about switching to the "home district" event selection similar to how FiM handles things to make registration easier. Teams will still be able to opt out of their home district but they will be on their own to register for their two events and at the mercy of the popular events filling up quickly.

I do have a question though as to how you calculated those points since you show a team with 0 points and the minimum number of points that can be earned per event under this season's qualification ranking points system is 4 per event attended.

Yes if you look at the PNW points you will see a team with zero points but that is because they did not attend any events, the lead mentor had family issues to deal with and the other mentor nor any parents were willing to step up and bring the kids and robot, despite the fact that PNW FIRST added them to an already full event so they could play at least once. Needless to say I was rather disappointed. We had another team who's only mentor couldn't make it to their second event but a parent stepped up, jumped through all the school district hoops and got them there. Once they arrived the first thing we did was connect them with a couple of teams with a large mentor base to ensure they had a good event and we certainly would have done the same for the other team.