[FRC Blog] FIRST Championship District Allocations

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

You can clearly notice that if a region is going to South Champs, they got way more additional spots than if they are going to North Champs.

This really is not resulting in "bringing the Championship experience to more teams" in an equitable manner between the halves. The north half gets zero benefit from this split other than 1/3rd fewer teams at their event.

I'm sure the FIRST BoD will deem this split a success regardless of what happens, though. The numbers went up, more registration fees entered the account, the people that made the decision who didn't have to do any of the implementation will feel good while the staff who has to pick up the pieces of this top-down decision will struggle through these growing pains and bear most of the complaints.

Other than getting rid of two champs, or moving the locations to make them more geographically balanced... what's the solution here?

If FIRST gave districts equal representation divided among both champs but a norther district was given the southern champs likely 2-4x farther from them, would that be acceptable?

Not disagreeing with you, more so rambling about how the quantity and locations of two champs makes it really hard to make any such assignment equitable.