Districts in Texas proposal sent to FIRST

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Originally Posted by BMSOTM

I am happy to hear that more teams will be able to benefit from the district system. It is really great for teams, especially struggling ones. It is the next step forward for making FIRST sustainable in regions that can support a district. It'll be interesting to see how well the system works in an area as large as Texas.

Like you stated, the thing that will be interesting to me about Texas districts is there's a significant # of teams that don't have more than 1 event (currently) within 300 miles of them, and some of those don't have any event within 300 miles. If the normal district rules apply, forcing those teams to do two competitions in Texas could place a significant burden on them, or force something like Lubbock to host 2 district events back to back with many of the teams competing in both against a roster of teams that is mostly the same, or some other solution I have not heard of/thought of. There's a LOT of Texas that is not within a couple hours drive of San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, or Houston.