Districts in Texas proposal sent to FIRST

[Jay O'Donnell]

Originally Posted by EricLeifermann

Because you get out of bag time at your own facility with access to so much more than you have at a practice day. Add in there is less stress as you don't have a LRI breathing down your neck to get inspected or other teams in your pits bothering you with useless questions like "how many wheels does your robot have?".

Also there is practice time on load in night. If you are at a place where you get inspected fast you get as much practice as you could want.

Having gone from regionals to districts and now back to regionals, I can confirm that the district method makes it way easier to work on your robot. The six hours of unbag time is better than it sounds, because you can plan everything out nicely ahead of time. Not to mention load in night is a couple hours too.

If you want to see how greatly that difference in time improves teams, look no further than how much better New England has gotten over the last few years (or any other district really).