Split Champs assignment

[Pauline Tasci]

Guess we will be in Houston, missing our East Coast, Canadian, and some International buddies.
I know I say this a lot,
but man FIRST really $@#$@#$@#$@#ed up with this call.

[Hallry]

So when's the next time you'll see your alliance partners from last week ever again?

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Hallry

So when's the next time you'll see your alliance partners from last week ever again?

MidKnight Mayhem for 1712 and 869

Actually, all of our alliance partners fell on the same side of the split as we did. And in the same pit aisle. It was a pretty easy alliance to find after alliance selection.

[MARS_James]

Originally Posted by Hallry

So when's the next time you'll see your alliance partners from last week ever again?

3620: 2021 at the earliest
3627: 2017
3360: 2021 at the earliest

Unless we get into IRI who I think have a tougher selection process starting next year

Also how will district slots be allocated, by 400 or 800?

[Hot_Copper_Frog]

As much as I love my fellow Michiganders...the Detroit championship is going to feel a whole lot like MSC.

I'm going to lobby hard for the frogs to travel to Hawaii for some fresh faces starting in 2018.

[TheJoe]

Originally Posted by Hot_Copper_Frog

As much as I love my fellow Michiganders...the Detroit championship is going to feel a whole lot like MSC.

I'm going to lobby hard for the frogs to travel to Hawaii for some fresh faces starting in 2018.

Some of our older mentors are joking that it will be like the olden days when we used to compete at the Great Lakes Regional with you all

[Hot_Copper_Frog]

Originally Posted by TheJoe

Some of our older mentors are joking that it will be like the olden days when we used to compete at the Great Lakes Regional with you all

I mean, it is kind of like GLR on steroids, if you look at the map.

[TheBoulderite]

Our alliance partners on Carson this year were 525, 4028, and 3352. We will never see any of them again.

Thanks for a great run, guys! Good luck next year!

[jajabinx124]

Originally Posted by TheBoulderite

Our alliance partners on Carson this year were 525, 4028, and 3352. We will never see any of them again.

Thanks for a great run, guys! Good luck next year!

We won't ever get to see our 2122 Tator buddys again either..

[MikLast]

Guess this is relevant again.

Originally Posted by MikLast

Spokane to Houston: 2,118 miles
Spokane to Detroit: 2,071 miles

Spokane to St. Louis: 1,805 miles

I thought i heard something about cost saving?

[Andrew Schreiber]

[expletive]

[Citrus Dad]

One surprise to me--that they didn't set up a 4 or 5 "area" approach that carves out the 2 coasts and international teams, and rotates those between the two Super Regionals. It will make no cost difference to the West Coast teams where they go, and I suspect the situation may be similar for East Coast teams given that most fly to competition. (Air fare is not directly distance based.)

[Hot_Copper_Frog]

Originally Posted by Citrus Dad

One surprise to me--that they didn't set up a 4 or 5 "area" approach that carves out the 2 coasts and international teams, and rotates those between the two Super Regionals. It will make no cost difference to the West Coast teams where they go, and I suspect the situation may be similar for East Coast teams given that most fly to competition. (Air fare is not directly distance based.)

Well, they've only announced through 2018, but I believe the Houston/Detroit set-up will continue for several years. So maybe they'll change up the location assignments for 2019 after seeing how things shake out?

[TheJoe]

Big News! And Season Thoughts (Later...)

Written by Frank Merrick, 2015 MAY 05.

Big News!

In case you haven’t heard, we’ve released information on the 2017/2018 ‘home’ Championship assignments, along with information on a few things still in the works. Check it out here.

Season Thoughts

We’ve got some thoughts to pass along about the 2016 season, but as we expect most folks in the community will be buzzing about those 2017/2018 Championships assignments, we’ll save those for later.

Hope everyone who attended Championship made it home safely and has had a chance to get a little rest!

Frank

I think we may be forgetting abut this. Hallry shared it in a different thread earlier. I wonder what Frank will have to say about 2016?

[AndrewPospeshil]

Originally Posted by Hot_Copper_Frog

As much as I love my fellow Michiganders...the Detroit championship is going to feel a whole lot like MSC.

I'm going to lobby hard for the frogs to travel to Hawaii for some fresh faces starting in 2018.

>tfw class of 2017

Originally Posted by peirvine

They could potentially run it like they do FTC - where they have 4 "super regionals" which then feed into the World Championship again. I think they had something like that drafted up in 2011 but I could be mistaken.

Originally Posted by RoboChair

I would like to see FIRST push for everyone having districts instead of regionals(sparse international teams I have no current solution for). Everyone gets at least 2 events, those that do well get a Championship experience at the District level champs, and the best of the best at District Champs goes to the World Champs. The district model gives FIRST absolute control over team attendance numbers for Champs, bring X number of teams.

I think this is the end goal - and it it's not, I think it should be. If more and more regions move to Districts (lets say, 85% of FRC teams), then FRC could operate much like the FTC Super Regional model, except DCMPs are the the Super Regionals. This way, all teams will get 1-3 small events (Districts/Qualifiers), one big event (DCMP/Super Regional*), and one (hopefully singular) Champs. This way, mid-tier teams get an opportunity to advance to additional levels of competition, while perennial powerhouses get the satisfaction of an "undiluted" CMP.

*yeah, I know FTC has State Champs in most/all places. imo four levels of competition is too much