The Everywhere Else District

[notmattlythgoe]

Originally Posted by logank013

The idea of creating an everywhere else district just seems... Bad. I'm one of the biggest supporters of districts. There is only one issue with this idea... with this. Ignoring the whole volunteer factor, You need to reach a certain FRC team density before going to districts. Why? You want to make districts where at least 2 events are within a 2 hour drive max for every team. Why? You want to make it where any team can go to their two district events without staying at hotels. Why? It saves huge amounts of money. I suggest the minimum team to square mileage ratio is around 50 teams for every 40,000 miles squared. That is about where IN districts are and Indiana is at the Minimum range a district should be when you focus on the 2 hour drive guideline. If you make certain areas like South Dakota apart of the everywhere district, they'd be forced to go to 2 events instead of choosing to go to 1. Of course, it would cut down on the registration costs but that isn't the point of districts. We payed the same for registration in 2015 for districts as we did in 2014 for regionals. The whole point of districts is to cut down on hotel costs and create more FRC teams in an area. Making an everywhere else district would just make it more expensive for almost every FRC team who is currently in the regional area. They'd have to travel and pay hotel expenses for 2-3 times the amount of regionals. In order for an area to go to districts, they need to reach a certain team density so the district won't fail to start out with. Hopefully, This makes sense.

It is always said that moving to districts makes it cheaper for teams to compete. This is not true, it makes it cheaper per match, but not cheaper in total.