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Map showing the locations of MAR teams and events in the 2016 season. Numbers represent the amount of teams in each county, blue dots are district events and the red dot is the District Championship.
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25-08-2016 00:22
MailmanDelivers
Re: pic: MAR Team Distribution (2016)
Interesting to see how the championship seems to be farthest away from the higher-populated team centers. Is there any data on travel distance for these events?
25-08-2016 00:22
bkahl
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Originally Posted by MailmanDelivers
Interesting to see how the championship seems to be farthest away from the higher-populated team centers.
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25-08-2016 00:42
Brian Maher
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Originally Posted by MailmanDelivers
Interesting to see how the championship seems to be farthest away from the higher-populated team centers. Is there any data on travel distance for these events?
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Originally Posted by bkahl
Preaching to the MAR choir with that observation
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Don't quote me on this, but I believe part of the motivation to put it there was to encourage team growth in that region. Considering it's four years later and the map looks like that, it does not appear to have been especially effective.
I don't have any aggregate data, but I know about 1257's travel times. We're in Union County, the small county with 3 teams in northeast NJ. We typically attend Bridgewater-Raritan (30 minutes away) and Mount Olive (45 minutes away), and MAR Champs is around an hour and fifteen minutes away. It isn't too bad for us, but it's a bit of a hike, and that seems to be a recurring theme with MAR teams.
25-08-2016 00:48
wilsonmw04
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Wow, I guess different districts have different ideas about what a "hike" is. I would LOVE to have three events within an hour and 30 minutes of most (vast majority for MAR?) locations in my district.
25-08-2016 00:54
Brian Maher
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Originally Posted by wilsonmw04
Wow, I guess different districts have different ideas about what a "hike" is. I would LOVE to have three events within an hour and 30 minutes of most (vast majority for MAR?) locations in my district.
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The farthest I had ever traveled with 1257 was to the Springside Chestnut Hill event my freshman year. It was an hour and a half away, but I got to play 2012 341 so I'd say it was worth it.
25-08-2016 01:05
tjf
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Just out of curiosity, what is the 1 team in Monmouth County, NJ? I've been looking into that area and didn't see one...
25-08-2016 01:09
Brian Maher
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Originally Posted by tjf
Just out of curiosity, what is the 1 team in Monmouth County, NJ? I've been looking into that area and didn't see one...
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EDIT: It would appear they no longer compete. Not sure who it is then.
25-08-2016 01:14
tjf
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Originally Posted by BMSOTM
I think it's 4128 in Holmdel.
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25-08-2016 03:25
SoftwareBug2.0
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Originally Posted by MailmanDelivers
Interesting to see how the championship seems to be farthest away from the higher-populated team centers. Is there any data on travel distance for these events?
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My guess for a worst-case travel time to the MAR district championships is 2:18 (from the Dover, DE area).
PNW district championship to the two largest population centers in the district:
4:17 (Seattle, WA)
5:21 (Portland, OR)
This is roughly equivalent to holding the MAR championship in Pittsburgh.
25-08-2016 09:58
ezygmont708
Re: pic: MAR Team Distribution (2016)
Mid-Atlantic Robotics has a great partnership with Lehigh University. Without going to deep, MAR Champs is a $60,000 event. 80% of MAR teams are within 60 miles of the venue. It is a safe venue in a sub-urban/rural setting, and provides the space needed to effectively run our District Championships.
That said, the Venue Selection Committee and the Competition Committee have continually evaluated a variety of venues. The underlying concerns with these venues is location, capacity and cost.
Princeton University has been approached three times and will not commit to a date until 60 days out from the event. The Sun National Bank Center and the Liacouras Center have also been evaluated. These venues are in Urban Areas and command an steep price for Rental and Labor.
The vast majority of teams have a commensurate travel time to the event, and while there are no Hotels on top of the venue, MAR has each year arranged for transportation to and from a list of hotels in Bethlehem.
The competition committee has taken great measure to try to effectively distribute competitions throughout the region. Venues have been mapped against the geographic distribution of teams.
Should members of MAR have suggestions for additional venues they should direct them to the competition committee whose contact information can be found on midatlanticrobotics.org
25-08-2016 10:05
AGPapa
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Originally Posted by tjf
Just out of curiosity, what is the 1 team in Monmouth County, NJ? I've been looking into that area and didn't see one...
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25-08-2016 12:57
Christopher149
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Originally Posted by BMSOTM
...FLR with 2791, our second closest regional, which was three and a half hours away.
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30-08-2016 12:11
Lil' Lavery
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This also brings to light another point. Does anyone know the precise border of MAR in Pennsylvania? So far it's largely been a non-issue, since the vast majority of teams in PA are clustered in the general area of either Philadelphia or Pittsburgh. But at some future point, if teams start springing up in those counties cut in half on this diagram, are they MAR teams or regional teams?
30-08-2016 13:01
Brian Sherman
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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
This also brings to light another point. Does anyone know the precise border of MAR in Pennsylvania? So far it's largely been a non-issue, since the vast majority of teams in PA are clustered in the general area of either Philadelphia or Pittsburgh. But at some future point, if teams start springing up in those counties cut in half on this diagram, are they MAR teams or regional teams?
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The Corporation represents a geographical area that includes the entirety of the states of Delaware and New Jersey and the counties of Pennsylvania including Bradford, Sullivan, Columbia, Montour, Northumberland, Dauphin, York and all counties to the east of the aforementioned.
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