[FRC Blog] FIRST Robotics Competition Registration Update

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by MARS_James

There is more to it then just being geographically close, for example Florida has two regionals this year Week 1 and Week 2, unfortunately as of this moment we may not be able to attend either due to scheduling conflicts with our school(s), so creating a home event system would mean we would either
A) Be forced to sign up for an event and have no students at it till midday Friday
or
B) Have to hope that in a weighted lottery system we get lucky.

In such a system, I would hope you would be able to chose a "replacement" regional for your first choice before anyone else gets to choose a second regional. I would hope that leaves enough room open for teams in such a situation to pick a different regional. It may not be the second or third closest regional, though, depending on team density in your area.

Even with these issues, I still think a system that focuses on minimizing travel for all teams would come up with the "least objectionable" first event picks overall, allowing those with issues to then address them within the remaining capacity.