FIRST Chesapeake Districts

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Originally Posted by notmattlythgoe

I'm looking forward to the Inter-district play along with an 8th district event being added to FCPK. Having a home event on week 3 sucks right now, your choices are to compete back to back or fight for the limited spots at the week 1 event. I wish they had scheduled the single event week to be either week 2 or week 3 to alleviate some of these scheduling issues. I also wish I had seen this problem earlier so I could have brought it up in an early meeting. Who knows, maybe next year they will adjust the schedule to make up for this.

I sorta see the approach of having 1 week 1 event as trying to put out any fires that show up inherently with a week one event, but I'm someone who has learned to love the bomb. I'd appreciate 1 week 2 or 3 event, but that's above my clearance.

With the current competition season of 6-7 weeks, there are pros and cons to any of the schedule setups. Run the districts without a week gap before champs and you can put late qualifiers in a real bind. Run the whole system through week 7 and you put late qualifiers to the world champs in a bind. Compact the district schedule to finish the district season in 6 weeks AND give teams a week break between the districts and their championship, and you choke out flexibility for teams.