[FRC Blog] FRC Events Being Posted and AMAA on FUN

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by mwmac

2 things:
1. Absolutely agree that better event date coordination is required between RD's and First HQ. Last year was bad for teams doing two events (given the travel distances involved) for the intermountain west, (with Utah, Sacramento, Colorado, Idaho, Las Vegas and Western Canada events all scheduled within three weeks) but the 2017 schedule for Pittsburgh, FLR and Tech Valley is now the poster child for poor event scheduling.

2. Some scattered pockets of the country will not have the team/mentor/volunteer density required by the district model for the foreseeable future. This factor is often overlooked by FRC participants in densely populated parts of the country.

When I talked to Frank a couple of years ago at Tech Valley he admitted that there are places that just cannot go district because of the lack of teams/mentors/volunteers. There are also places that have a high number of team/mentor/volunteers that are struggling to convert to districts for varying reason. Right now FIRST is split into two worlds and it looks like it'll be that way forever due to geographical barriers that cannot be solved.