New England District System Proposal

[IKE]

Originally Posted by PVCpirate

To be clear this is just a proposal and I would assume many of the details will change by the time the negotiations with FIRST are completed. I like the bigger district championship, I say the more teams who can attend the event the better.

Also, I have a question: does Michigan and/or MAR grant automatic slots at the District Championship for winners of District events like it says in the proposal?

No. If the winners were all invited per the proposal from NE, from the 10 possibly 11 districts, you would have to have 66 slots. If you include th 12 sign up slots for NE, when they reach 200-ish team like MI, then they will have the possibility for 2 points based slots at their 80 team event... Realistically, tehre is a fari amount of event winner overlap. Often 2/3 of the winning alliance will win some other event as well. So instead of 66, they would only take up about 56 (Assumes 10 repeaters) of the 80 slots thus with the 12 (sign ups), you would also have about 12 getting in from points. Of course, they have a couple of years before they reach that point.

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by PVCpirate

Also, I have a question: does Michigan and/or MAR grant automatic slots at the District Championship for winners of District events like it says in the proposal?

Also no for MAR, although actually winning a district (even as 2nd pick) was enough points to qualify in 2012.

For the CMP slots, I feel that the 30:147 and 18:190 equations are going to have to change. I see a ratio of about 1:7, meaning NEF=21, MAR=14 and FiM=27.

If I were in MI, I'd be howling very loudly at being punished for the successful growing of FRC.

[PayneTrain]

FiM should be on the phone figuring out why FiNE gets 12 more slots with 50 fewer teams. I saw that number and my jaw dropped.

If multiple regions are going to switch over to districts soon, why not start accurately apportioning slots? Just saying "You had x regionals for 6x slots before, so you're stuck with that number" sounds careless.

However, as someone who has been watching district models developing in multiple areas, I always like to see progress.

[PVCpirate]

From the proposal:

There will be 30 teams representing NE FIRST at the FIRST Championship. This follows precedent of 6 * the number of regionals when the region switched. Legacy and Hall of Fame teams will not count into this 30.

They're just following the precedent, the number may(and probably should) be reduced after negotiations with FIRST. It's like the saying goes, shoot for the stars and if you miss, you'll hit the moon.

[MamaSpoldi]

I agree that it looks really good.

The one thing I am disappointed in at this point is that there is only 1 EI slot but 2 RAS and 5 CA. To be fair to the importance of that award I think it should be 2 EI at least. Especially since the other awards give you points to put toward your total to compete for the other slots available but EI, CA, and RAS do not.