Official Inter-District Interest

[Rick]

Originally Posted by notmattlythgoe

A couple of reasons come to mind.
- One of the complaints people have about districts is that they see the same teams over and over again. Opening the borders would allow different teams to enter the district.
- Some teams on the borders of districts are closer to events in another district than their own. This would allow those teams to decrease their travel costs by opening their options up more.

Seeing the same teams 'over and over again' is not a valid complaint for earning points out of district. FIRST is not restricting you to personally go visit other teams.

I would be 100% behind a process to allow border teams to join an adjacent district for a few years while teams/events build up in their area. Teams would earn points in the adjacent district then compete in the adjacent DCMP, they would earn zero points in their original home district. This would be a temporary and voluntary fix for that issue.