Ohio going to Districts?

[Alex2614]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

From what I heard almost all of FIRST will be going District by 2017 (there will be obvious exceptions like the Iowa/Nebraska/ Wyoming/North Dakota/ South Dakota areas where there area not enough teams and too much distance to make districts feasible).

My guess is that they will join a nearby district, or even form their own. FRC is a hard enough sell in really rural areas, and telling them that they have to pay twice as much to travel twice as far as every other team in FIRST would just kill it. Having some areas in districts and some not is just not a sustainable model. Even if that means they have to travel for six hours or more to get to a district event, I'm sure they'd rather do it than spend thousands of more dollars for much much less playing time.

Having these areas in neighboring districts will actually make it easier to start more teams anyway, ensuring that they can have their own district in the future.