FRC Blog - Inter-District play in 2016

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by jeremy callahan

I understand your concerns but I believe you are going about it the wrong way, and think you need to take action in your community. So you, and your community can be more engaging with districts. In FRC we are always tasked with going up against the powerhouse teams. when you do play them we most often get destroyed, but you improve and strive to be like them and grow. So you and your community needs to strive to be like the districts and grow. Instead of saying how disappointing it is not to be them, and give up. The districts aren't going to stop growing because of the teams that haven't adapted yet.

While I understand your overall message, I dont think the reason is because of jealousy. This isnt a crab in the bucket situation. Districts are the way to go from a cost standpoint, and to me personally, it makes no difference whether I'm in a high school gym or in a big arena competing in an FRC event. Last year however, we did a "regional" held in a high school gym. Cost was $5,000 to compete.
I'm hoping that while districts continue to increase in the years to come, that non-district teams have a chance to help fill slots AFTER every district team has had a chance to sign up.
We want to play in Michigan one day,......we hope.