FIRST Chesapeake Districts

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by notmattlythgoe

Correct. Let's look at one that doesn't include DCMP:

Single Regional - registration fee + travel costs

District 1 - registration fee + no travel costs
District 2 - no registration fee + travel costs

In this situation it should basically come out to even, but if you have to travel twice because there isn't a district event close to you then the cost goes up compared to a single regional. However, you still have the option to only go to one district event, and you still get an increase in value by doing this.

There's really a couple other scenarios we should look into, compare, and then see how many teams meet them.

First we need to look at the current state. For 1 or 2 regional teams (3+ regional teams are already an outlier and it makes the scenarios explode) there's 5 states they could be in:

A.Single Regional w/o travel cost
B.Single Regional w/ travel cost
C.Double Regional w/ no travel costs
D.Double Regional w/ 1 travel cost
E.Double Regional w/ 2 travel costs

I'm also conveniently claiming that travel to location A approximately equivalent to location B. I'm fairly confident that this assumption will hold relatively true for local (ground based) travel.

From there we have 3 states they can transition to (I'm ignoring the single district scenario because I think it's a bad scenario and should be actively discouraged):

F.Districts w/o travel cost
G.District w/ 1 travel cost
H.District w/2 travel costs

So, in theory there's 15 different scenarios we need to look at. Of these the following are more than likely cost neutral:

A -> F
B -> G

The following would be cost saving:

B -> F
C -> F
C -> G (assumes local travel cost < $4000)
D -> F
D -> G (assumes local travel cost < $4000)
E -> F
E -> G
E--> H

And the following are increasing cost:

A -> G
A -> H
B -> H
C -> H
D -> H

The next step, which I haven't done, is to find which percentages of teams in your district are in each of these transition groups and ensure you are benefiting the majority.

The big concerns for me are the ones in the A -> G, A -> H and B -> H transition groups because these are already incredibly vulnerable teams.