[FRC Blog] 2017 FIRST Championships Allocations for Districts

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by logank013

What is the predicted spots allocated for 2017 based off in the 2016 season? Because you have PNW going from 30 to 41 and then there is Indiana going from 9 to 10. Indiana has an 11% increase where PNW has about a 37% increase.

Are these increases based off of a projection of how many rookie teams will be added to the 2017 season? IN gained 0 teams last year total so is FIRST assuming IN will gain 0 teams again this year? I'm just curious how these were designated. Thanks

from the blog "if 2017 were to look like 2016 with respect to team counts"

So it's using the exact same numbers as 2016, assuming no increase anywhere.

The difference you note is the difference between norths champs and south champs. districts going to south champs are going to get bigger increases than districts going to north champs.