Inter-District Play in 2017

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Originally Posted by Kartoffee

Michigan team here, about 15-20 minutes from Detroit, but attending "local" competitions for multiple reasons. Of course, I don't speak for my whole team, but lots of people on our team are mostly worried about the travel expenses and time. Hope to see some Canadian teams in the Michigan District, maybe for a chance to be on Robozone.

I do not believe there will be a lot of open spots in Michigan unless we add another another event (a couple were added a couple weeks ago). That being said, we are now a large enough organization that we might have some pre-season fallout which could open up a few spots.

Relevant to this thread, the standard 40 team district format with 12 matches requires 80 matches for qualifying (every match counts). Each team added or removed increases or decreases the schedule by 2 matches effectively. With an early season cycle time of likely 7-ish minutes, adding a team basically adds about 15 minutes more towards the qualifying schedule. Later in the season, adding 1 is a bit less impactful as the cycle time tends to get faster with practice and experienced robots.