[FRC Blog] 2017 FIRST Championships Allocations for Districts

[Ernst]

Originally Posted by logank013

So because we have so many more district teams in HalfChampsN compared to HalfChampsS, it causes less "new spots" to be distributed to each of the HalfChampsN districts?

Full Sarcasm Alert!: Can FIRST do us all a favor and send 3/4 of MI to half champs south? 201-60 = 141 and 88+60= 148. That'd make for a much better district distribution and would cause the same percentage increase of HalfChamps spots allocated to each district

I was curious about this.

Using 2016 numbers and accounting for 3114 of 3130 teams (there are 16 hiding somewhere):

North: 1766 teams
South: 1348 teams

That's including the US, Canada, Israel, China, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, and a few other smaller countries.

The blog post mentions

the formula for 2017 will use the percent representation of each District compared to the number of FRC teams just within the geography assigned to the District’s home Championship

So there's your answer.


I wonder how much FIRST looked at team counts before drawing the lines? Or if it was more based on population? Really populous states like Texas, California, and Florida are all in the south, but they're currently lagging behind many northern and eastern states in teams/person.