Preparing for the Town Hall Meeting on the New Championships Format

[MrRoboSteve]

Originally Posted by shhrz

I see everyone moving to districts. All district events will happen during weeks 1-4, where each team gets to play a maximum of 2 events.

There are issues with venue, field, and volunteer availability that you should consider. An example, in Minnesota we'd need between 10 and 12 district events. We currently put on four events, so instead of two fields that are in use on 2/7 of the weekends (and used by others on 5/7 of the weekends), we would need three dedicated fields.

Regarding your schedule:

So a team that plays a full district schedule and advances would play on something like this schedule:

Week 1
Week 3
Week 5
Week 7
Week 9

or (worse)

Week 3
Week 4
Week 6
Week 7
Week 9

With weeks 5/6, 7, and 9 including travel. Will be a burden for some teams.

Originally Posted by shhrz

Granted, not all issues are solved here, but once we figure out the short-term ideas to bring up, we should also think long-term

I agree that thinking about the long term goal helps guide a short term strategy.

[shhrz]

Originally Posted by MrRoboSteve

There are issues with venue, field, and volunteer availability that you should consider. An example, in Minnesota we'd need between 10 and 12 district events. We currently put on four events, so instead of two fields that are in use on 2/7 of the weekends (and used by others on 5/7 of the weekends), we would need three dedicated fields.

Regarding your schedule:

So a team that plays a full district schedule and advances would play on something like this schedule:

Week 1
Week 3
Week 5
Week 7
Week 9

or (worse)

Week 3
Week 4
Week 6
Week 7
Week 9

With weeks 5/6, 7, and 9 including travel. Will be a burden for some teams.



I agree that thinking about the long term goal helps guide a short term strategy.

Sure, venues and such would need to be figured out. Yet if you run 3 events with 40 teams each week, you get 12 events, for a total of 480 slots, or 240 teams. Those same fields will be used, so "only" 3 are needed. You could probably add another field or two, and create more events - depending on the next point:

Volunteers are an issue, but again, this is always an issue - even at Worlds. I assume and believe that if the Districts takes it seriously - the volunteering apect is not something that should break this.

As for the schedule.. granted it's not perfect. The teams that find those options not possible, should try to sign up weeks 1 and 4, for example. 1-4-6-7-9 is not horrible. If we expand the season by a week, everything will look better. But there are issue with that. If we drop the Super Regionals and go by Districts that will split, that can work too as it will remove one level of competition and spread the competitions apart.

It's never optimal, but it's better than the current plan, I think.