FAHA: FiM - 3rd Event Quandary

[GaryVoshol]

This is no different than any other team that signs up for multiple regionals. If a team participates in W1, W3 and W4 regionals, qualifies for Atlanta in W3, should they drop out of W4? No, they paid for the event and should have all the rights that go along with that.

Every team had equal opportunity - maybe not equal resources, but opportunity - to sign up for extra events. While the district model changes some of the have/have-not inequities, it doesn't erase all of them. Should teams amply endowed with talented engineering mentors be forced to dismiss half of them? Should teams that can afford to travel outside Michigan to regionals be barred from the State Competition?

What the district concept did was raise the poorest teams to a higher level of participation, at a lower cost. It was not meant to harness the teams with the most resources.