Pacific NW District (Official)

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by nicholsjj

The team doesn't save money because the team still has to pay the regional registration fee, but if the team qualifies for Worlds at a far away regional you can then choose not to attend the DCMP to open up a spot for another team from your district to qualify. 341 did this this year for MAR.

To be clear 341 qualified for Worlds via CCA, they didn't win a regional.

When teams opt out of their District Championship, the event becomes much less competative than it could be if the powerhouses actually attended (see MAR champs 2013).

[DELurker]

1) Has PacNW District moved forward any? I heard that NE was officially announced as a done deal, but nothing that sealed the fate up in PacNW.

2)

Originally Posted by SciBorg Dave

You can get an advantage with in NW District.
The team can go to a Regional in some other state then come back and play 2 district events. This would gave any team a big advantage.

The penalty to get this advantage is an additional 4-5k, another weekend of time lost, more travel expenses, etc. It has been done successfully in MAR (and probably FiM, too), but it takes a definite toll on everybody involved. In 7 weeks, you have 1 Regional, 2 Districts, and (you hope) 1 District Championship. This gives you 3 weekends without competitions. And, of course, the ultimate goal is to get to World's in week 9. It would make for a brutal schedule.

Our team has chosen (subject to change) to instead spend a little extra effort and build a proto-bot during build season so that we can test everything out when we inevitably run out of Build Season. That way, we can still test, program, develop, and train without worrying about the bag time.

[Madison]

Originally Posted by SciBorg Dave

You can get an advantage with in NW District.
The team can go to a Regional in some other state then come back and play 2 district events. This would gave any team a big advantage.

This feels like a non-sequitur. Was there new information provided recently about the development of the system in the NW that would warrant new thought about this subject?

The situation you've described has been available to all teams competing in districts since their inception.

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by Madison

Was there new information provided recently about the development of the system in the NW that would warrant new thought about this subject?

I don't believe anything new has been officially announced recently. I am under the impression that planning is still under way, last I heard they've been scouting out more possible venues to add to the line-up.