FIRST Chesapeake Districts

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by TDav540

I think that there isn't any significant way to feasibly reduce the travel costs for teams in Western Virginia and the Hampton Roads area (possibly only exception a second district in Hampton Roads). However, I still believe that, ideally, all teams would have to travel only once within their district. Obviously this isn't possible, as Western VA provides the exception. But I think it would be fair to have the teams in the DC metro area travel for the District Championship. If they had to only travel for the District Championship at VCU (since the other events are nearby and within driving distance), then the Central Virginia and Metro DC area teams would only have to travel one time before Worlds. To help the Hampton Roads teams and some Northern VA teams, the future 8th and 9th district events should be thrown in the Winchester and Norfolk areas. This would ensure that the fewest number of teams possible have to travel twice in the region.

TLDR: In order to make the equity of travel better (hence making team growth easier), the district championship should be at VCU at least 50% of the time.

You didn't answer my question. Why should a minority of teams be catered to in the name of "equity," when the most utility is provided by hosting the DCMP nearer to the population center?

This also isn't even touching on financial and scheduling concerns between the various venue options. We don't know for a fact that VCU is even an option for the appropriate weekends for a DCMP (6 or 7).