Are 8 play regional reasonable?

[Mr V]

I think that 8 qualification matches is too few, no question about it.

Fact is that MN should have joined the district system years ago. Every year that passes it gets far harder to implement.

I've heard the cries that you don't have enough volunteers but that will never get better unless the move is made to the district system sooner rather than later.

At this point it is still possible to make it work with 2 events per weekend. Once you cross that 240 team count then it will require 3 matches on at least one weekend and then it does almost become impossible to implement the district system.

Yes MI has more than 2 events per weekend, however they did not start out that way, they had time to build up the resources, whether we are talking about volunteers, funding or equipment.

At this rate I fear that the teams in MN will be the last to benefit from all of the advantages of the District System, and I fear it is going to take a mandate from FIRST which I don't think that will turn out all that well.