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

[Mr V]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

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.

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...

Currently the two events in your home district are your points earning events regardless of their chronological order. I do agree that inter-district play with points portability should require the team to play at least one event in the home district and that if they get enough points to attend that district's DCMP then they must attend that event.

The way it is now we already have some teams that pick their events based on the fact that they think a particular event will be easier and allowing inter-district play with points portability could only make that worse.

The way it worked out this and previous seasons, in the PNW a team can earn enough points at one District event to qualify for DCMP. This year the cutoff was 58 pts with the declines and a #1 seed that goes all the way earned 68 pts w/o winning any awards. I do understand that in a larger District like FiM a single win may not earn enough points to move on. You do have to keep in mind that since the points are cumulative a team that earns enough at their first event will still want to attend their second event to better their chances at a CMP spot.