paper: FAQs Regarding the FRC District Competition System

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Originally Posted by EricLeifermann

Coming from someone who was very upset in 2009 because of the move to districts, my team at the time was 857 located in the very western portion of the UP, the FIM district model didn't and still doesn't make sense for them(if they got put in a district model with Wisconsin and Minnesota or something like that, would make sense), this FAQ gives allot of insight. ....

As the paper states, it works well for areas with reasonably high densities of teams... which is not the UP (upper penninsula for you folks outside of the midwest).

One question Jim, that I have been asked, but I did not see answered was:
"Why can't teams opt out?" Eric and a handful of others that do not see the "local" benefit have asked this. There were also a lot of folks asking this when the MAR was forming. This was especially asked by "travel" teams.

Really good paper , and I for one am glad we play with the lights on. It makes for a lot better pictures and scouting.