[FRC Blog] FIRST Robotics Competition Registration Update

[Andy Brockway]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

That's easily solvable by determining which event is a team's "local" regional ahead of time. The simplest way would be to determine which event is closest to each team and call that local. If, at that point, you have more teams than spots for that event, spots could be assigned randomly for every team that hadn't opted to try for a different event instead. The unlucky teams would then have to go to their second choice.

Back before we became a district, our team liked to travel to our events. Being forced into a local event is not something I would have looked forward too. We enjoyed playing in Trenton, Philadelphia, Rochester, Manchester, Worcester instead of always going to Hartford.