Improving the District Experience

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Originally Posted by Ben Martin

For MAR at least, the community feeling was a lot better this year than it has been in past years. I don't know what to attribute this to, but there is a heavy mix of 'new guard' teams achieving success in tandem with the 'old guard'. It could also be that this game doesn't force teams to be at odds with each other in qualification matches if the robots aren't complementary.

The camaraderie in districts is real, though. I know everybody a lot better than when I was in Indiana pre-district. Many of our students make great friends with other teams at the competitions.

Agreed. Not just this year, I feel like the floor of competitiveness, at least by MAR Champs, has definitely risen each year, and there is a larger range of teams at the top. In 2012 when MAR started we had 341 and 25 clearly at the top, now while these teams are still at the top, there are a LOT of other teams right there with them.