[FRC Blog] FIRST Championship District Allocations

[MARS_James]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

This can't be right. I'd assume FIRST has some knobs and levers to help promote regional growth. They CAN'T have been doing this for so many years without having some knowledge of how to spur growth.

I mean it isn't like FIRST was against the district model and forced them into isolation, and it's not like that that area now has over 400 teams, and districts teams now make up 43% of all teams.

Or FIRST had a regional in Brazil that flopped because it could not get more than 15 teams. Yet China and Australia proved they had the teams via offseasons to support a regional

Or every other major advancement in FIRST teams was done via the actions of FIRST teams and not the organization.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by MARS_James

I mean it isn't like FIRST was against the district model and forced them into isolation, and it's not like that that area now has over 400 teams, and districts teams now make up 43% of all teams.

Or FIRST had a regional in Brazil that flopped because it could not get more than 15 teams. Yet China and Australia proved they had the teams via offseasons to support a regional

Or every other major advancement in FIRST teams was done via the actions of FIRST teams and not the organization.

I think I failed to convey the sheer sarcasm I intended.

[MARS_James]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

I think I failed to convey the sheer sarcasm I intended.

As did I, we need to take after reddit and just put /s

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Michael Kaurich

And growth in Michigan will eventually stall when every high school has a team.

When that happens we will just start another team at our own school.

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

I think I failed to convey the sheer sarcasm I intended.

Subtlety will get you nowhere.