Are 8 play regional reasonable?

[AGPapa]

Originally Posted by DareDad

Apart from a pile of disjointed small events in high school gyms and marginally more matches per team, what are "All the advantages" of moving to a district system?

Originally Posted by nighterfighter

Marginally more matches?

Even if you only get 8 matches per district event, you still get two district events. That's twice as many, and in reality you probably get closer to 9 or 10 matches per event.

Plus there are also district champs, which is another set of matches. Meaning if a team wins district champs and goes to the actual champs, they have 3 times the amount of field time/driver practice under their belt as a team who only went to a regional.

Every district event has 12 qualification matches. That's 24 matches over two district events, or three times as many matches for the same registration cost of one regional.

Additional advantages for the district system come from treating FRC as a sport with a competition season, rather than treating it like an annual science fair.