Southern Championship math question

[TDav540]

Originally Posted by Basel A

North has most of the districts, and pushing the districts into fewer weeks is hard. Makes more sense to give North an extra week.

Agreed. To top that, the only district going to the Houston Championship that had a week 7 DCMP in 2016 is Peachtree, so there aren't even too many events that have to move.

[marshall]

Originally Posted by TDav540

Agreed. To top that, the only district going to the Houston Championship that had a week 7 DCMP in 2016 is Peachtree, so there aren't even too many events that have to move.

North Carolina doesn't count? Jeez... we get no respect.

[Michael Corsetto]

Originally Posted by Basel A

North has most of the districts, and pushing the districts into fewer weeks is hard. Makes more sense to give North an extra week.

As a counter, most teams that travel to FIRST Super Regional South (FSRS) have to fly, and now have one less week to book airfare, further increasing the cost for them to attend FSRS.

Most of those attending FSRN don't have to book airfare. Specifically, literally 25% of FSRN attendees live in the same state at their FSR from 2018-2020. This is not the case for FSRS.

Also, FSRS being Week 8 is just another bump in the long, 10+ year road to get California to Districts. Good times!

Question, will Peachtree District be pushing their DCMP to week 6 next year? Has it been discussed?

-Mike

[Basel A]

Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto

As a counter, most teams that travel to FIRST Super Regional South (FSRS) have to fly, and now have one less week to book airfare, further increasing the cost for them to attend FSRS.

Most of those attending FSRN don't have to book airfare. Specifically, literally 25% of FSRN attendees live in the same state at their FSR from 2018-2020. This is not the case for FSRS.

-Mike

Feel free to come to North, we'd love to have you

Your point is a good one. Teams can reserve then cancel buses. Harder to do for flights. I think the increase in events per week has a bigger impact, but that's probably just personal bias. Michigan is probably 24 events next year, and a jump from 3.5 events/week (21 in 6) to 4.8 (24 in 5) would be rough.

[ghostmachine360]

Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto

Question, will Peachtree District be pushing their DCMP to week 6 next year? Has it been discussed?

-Mike

Yes, and no. We'll hopefully be able to have a full answer soon. We've also got the new FTC South Super-Regional as well in Georgia for 2017, so January - March is going to be interesting in getting all the events in.

[Kevin Leonard]

Alternatively, if the districts need to have their championships during Week 7, the districts could figure out travel arrangements for all the teams in their district who would qualify.

It's a really messy solution, logistically, but what if each district was able to make travel arrangements on behalf of teams. A district could theoretically have the ability to negotiate with travel companies on behalf of their groups, considering how large of a contract that would be.

Perhaps PCH could have booked out 14 buses and a block of rooms at championships, for example, and then the teams who qualified at their Week 7 Championship have their travel plans already accounted for by the district.

It obviously has numerous issues, like being potentially unable to account for the size of every team, and some teams may want to fly instead, etc.

Thoughts?

[FrankJ]

You would still have the logistical issue of getting your robot to champs. Even shipping on Monday, would be a priority (expensive) shipment to have to there by Wednesday mid day. Especially if you ship your pit as well.

[Cabey4]

I feel as if a better way to make travel arrangements would be really helpful. Trying to book tickets and hotels (and for my team, organizing international flights too) are a nightmare, and it would be much cheaper and easier if it could be organized before the event. But how you would do it is a hard question, and particularly as most international events (like the Australia Regional), flights would need to be able to change their departure, making it effectively impossible.

For international teams who need it most, it's kinda impossible ( ) But travel is obviously still a huge pain for every team, and organizing it for districts sounds possible, just hard. But it would probably be worth it.