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.