Experience promoting districts in Minnesota

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I'm surprised about how the RPC didn't promote the mentor roundtable, yet expected mentors to show up. I was there all 3 days and didn't hear anything about this. If you hold a mentor roundtable, you need to promote it like crazy and get a majority of the mentors there. Maybe something at the state championship would be a better place to have the discussion, which it sounds like it may be happening.

I was also wondering why they got all taken down as well, as I glanced at it on Thursday but wanted to take a look at the cost on Friday. I was a bit discouraged looking at your flier about how you said that "These spots would be guaranteed to go to MN teams instead of Iowa or Wisconsin teams." I hope you know that 4 of the 11 Iowa FRC teams (almost half) attended the Minneapolis regionals this past weekend. That being said, I think it is a good thing to have districts to make it less expensive for everyone participating and potentially grow the program. They could be located closer to teams encouraging them to promote it within their local communities to bring their fans out. The architecture of districts is best for states with high saturations of teams and making it much lower key than regional events.