**FIRST EMAIL**/FIRST Adds District Event Model Alternative to FRC Program

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12-09-2009, 10:31

Chris Hibner Chris Hibner is offline

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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FIRST Adds District Event Model Alternative to FRC Program

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Nope. Consider a team in Ironwood, MI. They're in the UP. The Wisconsin Regional is closer than their second district. It's a pain to drive anywhere else.

Then they can pay to go the the Wisconsin regional, and they're still $1000 better than they were with the old regional system.

Even so, how can it possibly be $4000 more to travel 6 hours to Kettering than 3 hours to Milwaukee? Gas is expensive these days, but I have trouble seeing them spending an extra 4K to drive an extra 3 hours.

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