2015 CMP Representation by District/Region

[forbes]

Originally Posted by Dunngeon

One request, could you change the states with no teams from grey to black? The grey is very similar to the light pink that many states have.

Nebraska is the only state with no teams, and it seems pretty distinct from the rest as far as I can tell.

[Alex2614]

Originally Posted by MikeE

Thanks Navid - it's really interesting to see the differences in Regional and team distribution.



Districts don't make as much sense if the team population is lower than ~150% of a event size, allowing 3 district events + district championship. Typically District events are 40 teams although PNW has smaller events.

A district of only 30-40 teams would mean both events + district "championship" had every team competing, so it's not really a championship in any traditional sense*

This puts a practical lower limit of around 50 teams for a District.

* too soon?

True, however, these areas can be lumped in with nearby districts. For example, here in West Virginia, we only have 4 teams. We hosted the state's first ever FRC event last summer in the off-season. But as stated above, we will likely be going into districts with Ohio and Western PA in 2017.

Districts will eventually happen everywhere. Because it's a hard sell to rural teams (who are already disadvantaged in that aspect) to pay 5,000 to go to an event and an additional several thousand if you want to go to another event that is really far away (think the next closest area with a regional), when more "urban" teams (or teams in districts) get a cost break, and more matches for less money. Districts will happen everywhere, even if that means that the "remaining" teams will lump into a nearby district. It is not really sustainable otherwise.

[Alex2614]

Navid, speaking of West Virginia, why are we not represented in the spreadsheet? Is it because there is no event in WV? There are four teams here, and three of them are registered for the championship.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by forbes

I don't have historical data at my fingertips currently.

If someone does and can provide me with a spreadsheet in a form similar to below I can add it to the map eventually.

Year | 2 Letter State Abbr. | Total Number of Teams | Number of Teams at Championship
2015 | OK                   | 48                    | 2
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I guess this means I should fire up postgres and write that query.

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by Alex2614

Navid, speaking of West Virginia, why are we not represented in the spreadsheet? Is it because there is no event in WV? There are four teams here, and three of them are registered for the championship.

Because West Virginia is small and doesn't have an event. I added it to the spreadsheet now for you though

[Alex2614]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

Because West Virginia is small and doesn't have an event. I added it to the spreadsheet now for you though

Haha, I was just curious, I figured that was the reason; no biggie. Thanks though

Usually, it's because people don't know that WV is a state (you'd be surprised) or they lump us in with VA by mistake.

It's small now, but just wait

[BSV]

Originally Posted by forbes

Using the same strategy, I built a quick map showing the USA team representation visually at championship.evanforbes.net.

Be sure to show that to our Regional Director. It makes a great argument for OK going to a district model.