Are 8 play regional reasonable?

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by LFrisk

I won't get into other things with this post, but this annoyed me especially. As far as I know, his worry rests more with the fact that he would probably have to do 6 straight weekends of competition in a row, not to mention Worlds. Minnesota already has 4 large regionals, 5 if you were to count Iowa, and Minnesota would probably need 12 districts to accommodate all the teams here. To my knowledge, there are two scorekeepers and two or three FTAs in Minnesota FIRST. I don't know for sure, but I believe that there are only two or three Head Refs in Minnesota. (Don't quote me on that last one.) I know that Daredad has already done Northern Lights and will be scorekeeping at one of the Twin cities regionals, in addition to Iowa. I assume the FTAs and other Scorekeepers are equally busy. Would you want them to have that much more work for 10 more minutes of match time per event?

How many JA's did NE have when it went to Districts? AT an event it's just as much work as a scorekeeper or a FTA. [1] If it meant that 40 teams would have a better experience I'd do that job every weekend for the entire season.[2]

So I'm not asking them to do anything I am not currently doing. My schedule this year: UMD - Judge and Planning Committee, Rhode Island - Competing, Boston - Judge Advisor, Pine Tree - Competing (or if they are still short on judges... filling in), DCMP - Competing (or if they are still short on judges... filling in), and CMP - Judging. And I nearly ended up flying to Arkansas this week to fill in when their JA backed out.

So, feel free to be annoyed, but I put my money where my mouth is.




[1] I've done scorekeeping, haven't done FTA, Im not trivializing the roles.

[2] Last year I judged weeks 3,7, and CMP and JA'd week 5 because I think the judging process is important.