Calling all students and mentors from the CHS, NC, and PCH Districts

[PayneTrain]

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

or those teachers who are taking 5 days out of class to do this. Not counting the 3 for Worlds!

...or the college students with spooky attendance policies.

Inter-District play is quite the can of worms. You have to answer a lot of tough questions and depending on the responses, you have to execute annoying solutions. "How much does equity matter in swapping for OOD spots? Should we re-evaluate how we award the CCAs at district events?"

I think the model would benefit from requiring that you a) play at least one event in your home system and b) any 2 events in your home system will be your points earning events, regardless of your OOD event.

Teams should be able to indicate interest in playing outside of your district system upon registration. Teams should then rank whichever events (or maybe just systems) in a preference order. Then the district systems can come out and say something like "CHS will be swapping 5 spots with NC and MAR, 2 with NE, and 2 with IN" based on the MUTUAL interest of inter-district play or something like that.

For CCAs, maybe consider awarding up to 2 EI and up to X DCAs per event, or whatever the district system allows for its final allocation?

I don't know what to do. I don't feel like it should be as simple as tearing down the walls and having an open season because it might cause some weird things to happen in the points. For instance, I'm pretty sure 238 would have qualified for NC states with their sole event in Asheville...