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Have folks heard about changes in venue/location/week for events? Any more new regionals? I've heard that Palmetto is moving to week 1 and Myrtle Beach, can anyone confirm? Have also heard of a new regional in Cali!

Hope people have some info to post. The dates below are based on a predicted January 5th kickoff. Thursday through Sunday are the dates in case of any Sunday events. Note that anything posted here, even if backed by citing venue calendars, is not an official schedule from FIRST.

Week 1 Feb 28th - March 3rd:
Central Valley Regional - as per R.C.
Palmetto Regional - as per Myrtle Beach Convention Center calendar


Week 2 March 7th - March 10th:
Autodesk Oregon Regional - as per Dale from 1540

Week 3 March 14th - March 17th:
Virginia Regional - as per venue calendar


Week 4 March 21st - March 24th:
Wisconsin Regional - as per venue calendar

Week 5 March 28th - March 31st:
Washington D.C. Regional - as per convention center calendar
Alamo Regional - as per venue calendar

Week 6 April 4th - April 7th:
MAR Regional Championship (location TBD)

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I believe Maine is establishing a new regional for 2013.

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At IRI I was Told by Chris Fultz that they are trying to get one started in Indiana. Not sure how that will turn our, but I think it would be a great Regional.

I wonder if another Canadian regional will show up. Right now my team is trying to create more teams in Windsor/Essex (right across the river from Detroit). Currently there is only one, us (772). We contacted a Teacher in Kingsville which is where 773 use to be, they may be coming back as a rookie team.
With these new teams we are trying to start we are hoping that in the next five years we can get enough teams to 1. start an offseason event 2. start a Regional event, and maybe get American teams to come to Canada for a regional.

Any comments on the Double Regional's this year? Last year there was GTR-West and GTR-East in the same Venue, and I believe there were a couple this year. GTR-West and GTR-East are just completely different Regional's now.

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What's your definition of a Double Regional? Minnesota has had a double regional for a few years now (North Star and 10,000 Lakes). Same weekend, across the street from each other.

Also, I believe Duluth is turning into a double regional this year!

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It is listed on the event calendar for the Myrtle Beach Convention Center.

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Is the Calgary Regional going to happen? I heard it was cleared by FIRST, but I don't know if they got a place.

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Thanks for pointing that out!

http://www.myrtlebeachconventioncenter.com/calendar.php

Looks like Feb 28th - March 2nd at Myrtle Beach for Palmetto.

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The Knoxville Convention Center looks to be booked Feb 27th and March 2nd so I'm assuming the Smoky Mt. Regional is moving as well.

http://www.knoxvilleconventioncenter.com/calendar.html

Anyone have info on perhaps a new location or a new week? Nothing FIRST related is booked yet for March.

Also just heard that the MAR Championship will not be in "week 7" like last time. It will be week 6 and is moving from Temple University, new location is TBD.

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Looking at the spring breaks for the host sites, Boilermaker Regional could be March 14-16, Queen City Regional could be March 28-30, and the unconfirmed yet strongly hinted second Indiana regional could be April 4-6.

Akash - For reference, would you mind putting the corresponding dates on the OP?

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Virginia Regional -- March 14-16 (no surprises there)

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The Autodesk Oregon Regional is Week 2 as usual.

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Central Valley Regional in Madera, CA should be week 1.

-RC

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There have been rumors floating around that the South Florida Regional might be going to a new location (after only 1 year), but that is just a rumor

On a side note does anyone know the date the FIRST is releasing all the regional dates and locations?

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Double Regional would be where Two fields are set up in the same arena, and two different Regionals are taking place. 2011 GTR west and east were both held in the Hershey Center, and they would play matches on one field while the other field is being reset.

Another thing I saw (at my very first ever regional - GTR 2006) was the same regional having two fields. I don't believe they do this anymore. But you could be playing on either field, and it was only one regional. It got pretty confusing though so I think that is why they stopped doing those. The nice thing was that there was almost always a match being played.

Well this just sucks! I know that this is the one Regional we WILL be attending. The Ten hour drive is worth trying to get back to back regional wins in Smoky Mountains, the atmosphere at this regional was amazing, I would recommend going to Knoxville to anyone. It was cool being the team that everyone came to for advice, we helped out a lot of teams while we were there and we hope that helps them all become more competitive in the future!


There is never really a specific date. FIRST has to get all contracts and such done before they release the Regional lists for the year. You should expect it to come out in September or at the latest early October.

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Washington DC Regional is listed as being 03/29/2013 - 03/30/2013 on the convention center's website.

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Based on WPI's spring break, the regional should be held March 7th through 9th.

The US Cellular Arena website lists the 2013 Wisconsin Regional for March 21, 2013 - March 23, 2013.

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I believe that this is correct for week 4......

The two Lake Superior (Duluth) will most likely be week 2.
10000 Lakes and North Star (Minneapolis) will most likely be week 5.

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IIRC at the little "MAR Year in Review Open Forum" powow thing at Monty Madness this year, they told us that it wouldn't be week 7...it'll be interesting to see where they bring it...Also the Rutgers District might not be happening

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The Olympic Oval.

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According to the website of the Henry B. Gonzalez San Antonio Convention center, the 2013 Alamo Regional will be Easter weekend (March 28-30, 2013).

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I have also heard the Rutgers District will not be happening at the same location again. Also at the BR^2 off season event it was announced that 303 and Bridge Water would be hosting a district event, which may be the former Rutgers event.

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Anyone know wen chespeake regional will be held

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Las Vegas Regional is set for week 6. Tuscon in Arizona and San Bernardino in California are supposed to have new regionals last I heard. If anyone knows the venue for the San Bernardino event could they please enlighten the rest of us?

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Is there any Rumors or Facts about any New Districts??

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I imagine we would have heard by now if anyone was planning on implementing anything for the 2013 season...MAR and FiM were announced well before this time during their respective launch years. I know New England, and possibly other locations, are working towards a district system starting for the 2014 season.

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We are still negotiating a location for the Inland Empire regional but the planning committee is already meeting and FIRST has given us the thumbs to have a regional in our area.

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From the looks of the RIT calender, the Finger Lakes Regional will go back to being Week 1.

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I've heard rumors about districs in California in 2014/2015 (rumors of rumors, actually).

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Its only a matter of time that California switches to some sort of District Style Format. Its not happening this year for sure, but should be soon.

-RC

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That one is the only FRC event officially listed on the FIRST website, so far.

Northern Lights Regional
07-Mar - 09-Mar-2013
Duluth Entertainment Convention Center

Well that's a change. Normally Alamo is week 1. The George R Brown Convention Center has no mention of Lone Star on the calander.

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The dates below are based on a predicted January 5th kickoff. Thursday through Sunday are the dates in case of any Sunday events. Note that anything posted here, even if backed by citing venue calendars, is not an official schedule from FIRST unless otherwise stated.

Week 1 Feb 28th - March 3rd:
Central Valley Regional - as per R.C.
Palmetto Regional - as per Myrtle Beach Convention Center calendar
Finger Lakes Regional - as per RIT schedule
BAE Granite State Regional - historically week 1

Week 2 March 7th - March 10th:
Autodesk Oregon Regional - as per Dale from 1540
Northern Lights Regional (Duluth Entertainment Convention Center) - as per FIRST schedule
WPI Regional - as per WPI spring break

Week 3 March 14th - March 17th:
Virginia Regional - as per venue calendar


Week 4 March 21st - March 24th:
Wisconsin Regional - as per venue calendar
Bayou Regional - as per venue calendar

Week 5 March 28th - March 31st:
Washington D.C. Regional - as per convention center calendar
Alamo Regional - as per venue calendar

Week 6 April 4th - April 7th:
MAR Regional Championship (location TBD)
Las Vegas Regional - as per Joe from 987

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According to the Purdue University calendar, The Boilermaker Regional will be Week 3, March 14-16th.

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UCF spiring break is the week of march 4th so it looks like the Orlando regional will be on march 7nth-9nth

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Assuming everything works out (so far they're good), you can add the Calgary/West Canada regional to Week 6 (April 3-6). Location is Canada Olympic Park, on The Oval, as BackInCalgary noted. That's a nice big venue, did I hear someone say 'practice fields'? :D

Very ambitious RD out here is also trying to start a bunch of new teams in Alberta. So far there have only been 2 teams West of Ontario for us to choose from out here.

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The Granite State Regional at the Verizon Wireless Arena has been week 1 for as long as i can remember, but that is not confirmed by anything

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Add Las Vegas Regional to week 6...

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Will the Michigan State Championship be week 7 again? I was surprised by MAR being moved to week 6.

Sorry Joe, forgot to hit save when I edited it last time.

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Peachtree will be Week 3. Confirmed from GeorgiaFIRST a couple days ago.

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I assume it will be, since with the volume of teams in Michigan it has been tossed around that new districts may have to be held during Week 6. But that's based on pure hearsay.

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Los Angeles Regional looks to be week 3. According to their schedule, It's the only time when the arena inst occupied by any big events.

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I've heard it won't be at the same venue, so that might not be a valid assumption.

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More speculation: if Michigan again grows by 20-30 teams, we'll be at 210-220 teams, which needs 11 districts. Because it's unlikely that three districts will take place in the same week, that would necessitate a week 6 district.

Note that it may be possible to squeeze 420-440 team-events into 10 districts, but I don't think that'll be attempted.

As for concrete evidence, there's nothing on the EMU Convocation Center event schedule for any FRC weekend (or 2013 at all for that matter).

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Not necessarily; if you look at the dates for last year's event there were also other things booked for the same time. They have multiple venues at the convention center.

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This is true, guess we'll just wait and see.

I'll be checking up on the venue websites for these events. If I see an update, I'll post and update.

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MAR Champs and MSC were week 7 last year to avoid Easter weekend (Week 6). It doesn't surprise me in the least that MAR is moving to week 6 given that Easter falls on week 5 this year.

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Lake Superior will most likely be the same weekend. The DECC is massive, and can easily hold two competitions with room to spare.

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SBPLI is scheduled for April 4-6

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According to FIRST Israel, Israeli regional will be either 3/10-12 or 3/11-13, which puts us between week 2 and 3.

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The MAR Calendar is still being finalized. There should be more information available in the coming weeks.

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The spring break for the venue for the Arizona regional is March 11-22. This could be either week three or four, but it has historically been week 4.

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Smoky Mountains Regional -- March 27-30 (Week 5)

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Hmmm right in the middle of our break.

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I've heard that the new Cali regional will be located in San Bernardino. No idea yet as to when the date/venue will be. Sacramento Regional will most likely be March 14th-16th, but it's not finalized.

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According to FIRST Israel CMP will be in St. Louis, April 25th-28th.
I haven't seen any announcement of this from US FIRST.

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Your date was last year's Championship. This year is April 24-27, 2013 in St. Louis announced here: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...t-championship

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I've sent a message to FIRST Israel regarding this.
Thank you :)

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I think everyone hopes that they'll finally move to the Anaheim Convention Center. But according to their website, they're booked for most of March.

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I haven't heard of any change in venue for LA Regional. Anaheim Convention Center would be cool, but it moves the venue further away from the teams in the LA area and closer to the San Diego and Inland Empire Regionals.

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I believe there is also a Week 7 this year.

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But it's right across from Disneyland! /kidding.

Is MAR really being moved up a week meaning they will fit their districts within the first five weeks?

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It's highly probable; last year we had 5 districts in 5 weeks (week 2 had 2 districts, week 3 was an 'off' week, the NYC regional took place, and there was nothing week 6) and the reason we had a Week 7 was because Week 6 was Easter. Easter is Week 5 this year.

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Hawaii is officially Week 6 per an email blast to local teams.

Teams who want to do Weeks 1, 2, 3, or 4, and finish up in paradise, feel free to apply!

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Peachtree regional is confirmed March 14th-16th based off the GAFIRST Mentors meeting.

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Just received this email confirming the new western Canada event and the date:

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Any intel from anyone on dates for the remaining Canadian events?

Would love to hear news re: Pittsburgh, Midwest, and Queen City as well.

Commence speculation. :cool:

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I have heard from a nemebrr of the Arizona Regional Planning Committee that the Arizona regional is definitely week 4.

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I checked University of Pittsburgh academic calendar and see that they are on break March 10 to 17, the same week as Purdue and CSU (Buckeye).

I am not serving on the planning committee for Queen City this year, so have no data, have not asked, this is purely speculation (enough disclaimer?)

Xavier has a break 2/25 to 3/1 and Easter weekend 3/28 - 4/1. So, I'm guessing Queen City will be one of those two weeks.

Any idea when the official dates will be published?

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Last year the offical dates came only a few days before registration opened at the end of September.

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I have heard when some of those dates will be, but am sworn to secrecy. I have been told that FIRST is shooting for a release of dates by mid-sept. I know Midwest was locked, then all of sudden had to change a couple weeks ago.

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Boston is usually mid-March, during Boston University's Spring Break since its held at their arena. I just checked the Agannis's event calendar and haven't seen anything yet, however since their spring break is March 10-17, it would make sense for the regional to be Week 3.

Speculating is fun! :D

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The American Physical Society meeting is at the Baltimore convention center during week 4 and I'm hedging that the Chesapeake Regional, Virginia Regional, and DC Regional are unlikely to overlap so I'm going with week 2 for Chesapeake unless there is some double secret venue change going on.

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Supposedly Chesapeake is week 7 according to a MD-First Meeting. I didn't know there was a week 7.

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There was a week 7 last year, but wasn't it MAR and FiM championships and not regular regional events?

Edit: We had an awesome time in Chesapeake last year and want to come back but its unlikely to be workable if its week 7.

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Make of this what you will.

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There's a MAR conference call tonight - expected to address the district events and championship event. Last I heard the plan was 6 qualifying events (up from 5), and a week 7 championship event due to scheduling issues.

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Hopefully Midwest and Milwaukee aren't stacked again this year. We missed seeing a bunch of our buddies in Chicago!

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I think Chesapeake will see a lot of 'normal' antendees turn away if it is a week 7 event; for whatever reason.

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I found this site:
https://sites.google.com/site/tennesseefirst/
That is counting down the days until 2013 regional. The countdown puts it in week 5.

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Word on the street says there's going to be a new MI district at Grand Blanc High School in Week 4.

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Here's what was just shown/discussed at the MAR teleconference. Trying for 6 district events with ~36 teams each depending on rookies and 3rd event registration.

Verified:

Week 1 - Hatboro-Horsham - March 1-3 (FSS)
Week 3 - Springside Chestnut Hill - March 14-16 (TFS)
Week 4 - Lenape - March 22-24 (FSS)
Week 4 - Mount Olive - March 22-24 (FSS)
Week 7 (CMP) - Lehigh University - April 11-13 (TFS)

Tentative/Unverified:

Week 3 - The College of New Jersey - March 14-16 (TFS)
Week 6 - Bridgewater-Raritan - April 5-7 (FSS)

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This is an awesome tentative schedule. Thanks for the update Scott!

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I REALLY hope there is an event at TCNJ. Not just because I go there but, they are (from what I found from talking to professors/previously switching majors research) more than extremely interested in FIRST students.

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With more events hopefully it will be easier for teams that would like to sign up for three to do three events. Does anyone know if there was discussion of this during the meeting?

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There are no Week 2 MAR District Events...?

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...or week 5.

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Easter is on week 5 and the thinking was to avoid this weekend. It also allows teams the week off to attend an outside regional if they desire.

But in truth, the driving factor in making the schedule is more based on when the schools are available. Frank Larkin and his committee has been working very, very hard on this. Thank him when you see him next.

Week 7 championship at Lehigh isn't totally verified yet, but the odds are it will be there.

When a event is listed as FSS or TFS (which are the days of the week - duh) that means the first day is setup day. So a FSS even will have competition on Saturday and Sunday.

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Using the process of elimination you can determine when the Duluth, MN regionals will most likely happen... This is their schedule for March via this link.

1 - 2 UMD Mens Bulldog Hockey vs. Alabama-Huntsville Bulldogs Hockey 7:07PM
8 - 9 UMD Mens Bulldog Hockey vs. Nebraska-Omaha Bulldogs Hockey 7:07PM
9 Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra DSSO 7PM
22 - 23 MN Ballet | Firebird MN Ballet 7PM

The first event with UMD vs. Alabama eliminates the first weekend in March, the second events UMD vs. Nebraska and the Symphony Orchestra eliminate the second week. There is nothing scheduled the third weekend and the fourth weekend is taken up by a Ballet. I have also eliminated the fifth weekend as that is when the 10K Lakes and North Star regional typically occur.

I would like to remind everyone that it sounds like Duluth will be turning into a double regional this year exactly like the Minneapolis double regional. One will take place in the DECC arena and the other in the AMSOIL arena (From what I understand).

I realize it has been previously stated that the events will be taking place during week two but I fail to see where two regionals will take place if there are hockey games and an orchestra playing... I could always be wrong though.

It appears to me that the Duluth Regionals will be taking place from March 14th-16th, or week 3.

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They discussed it for a good amount of time. The cost is $1000 for the 3rd event - there was some talk about reducing the cost but decided to stick with $1000. I think it was partly a FIRST restriction and partly not wanting to use grant funds for anything but MAR CMP / World CMP.

They were definitely talking about more slots being open for 3rd event registration. The range is somewhere between 216 and 240 total slots (36-40 teams per event). 36 teams seemed to be the ideal they were shooting for, but some events are able to support more. We had 99 teams last year, so that eats 198 slots, and then add rookies (they were projecting 8).

The schedule this year might pose a problem, since it's pretty condensed, with only 4 competition weekends. We're still thinking that we want to attend an out of state regional, but it's hard to plan with 3 separate registration periods, and district registration coming first.

The week 7 CMP is one of the few bad parts of the district model, but apparently there wasn't a suitable venue to be found week 6.

It's going to be interesting how FIRST transitions as more regions go to the district model.

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Seven regional weeks, one week off, then the Championship.
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr.../month/2013-04

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I wanted to follow up my previous statement, I was looking up the floor plan at the DECC here and realized that it is still might be possible to host a double during week two. Hockey would take up the AMSOIL arena, the orchestra would be in the Auditorium and the Existing Arena might have the potential to host two fields. I know that the South Pioneer Hall has enough space to hold at least 80 teams in the pit. They also might be able to convert the North Pioneer Hall into something other than Curling fields, but I am not 100% sure about that

I guess we will see in a few weeks when the schedule is finally released.

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Los Angeles Regional is confirmed to be 3/20/2013-3/23/2013 at the Long Beach Arena.

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It appears that the Midwest Regional will not be a Week 1 or Week 2 event, as the UIC mens and womens basketball teams schedules show that they have home games at the Pavilion those weekends.

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WOW can anybody relate to cheaspeake regional being in week 7 i find that hard to believe it been week 3 or 4 forever why change it most veterans will turn away if they win other regionals and you only have a week to raise the fund for ST.Loius will be a tough climb for most::rtm::

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Michigan Events (confirmed here):
Week 1-Kettering District
Week 1-Traverse City District
Week 2-Gull Lake District
Week 2-Waterford District
Week 3-Detroit District
Week 3-St. Joseph District
Week 4-West Michigan District
Week 4-Grand Blanc District
Week 5-Livonia District
Week 5-Troy District
Week 7-Michigan State Championship

Same number of District events as last year (10). Niles and Northville Districts don't appear to be happening this year, replaced by District events in St. Joseph and Grand Blanc.

Michigan has grown by 8, 31, and 19 teams over the past three years. With 190 teams, Michigan is roughly 10 teams below the 10-district capacity of about 200 teams, which suggests the possibility that there will need to be an 11th district. We'll have to wait and see.

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I just heard that the North Carolina regional has been bumped from week 2 to week 3 by a venue conflict. So *unofficially* North Carolina is week 3.

I guess we won't get to make our 5th appearance at Peachtree since it is also week 3. It looks like Palmetto or Smoky Mountains with Virginia also in week 3.

Unless NC gets moved again.

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MAR Email blast

"This season there will be six district events and one Mid-Atlantic Robotics Region Championship. 4 of the 6 district events have been finalized, and 2 are tentatively scheduled; we will notify you when they are finalized. We would like to thank our 4 returning hosts and look forward to working with our three new venues. The competition schedule is as follows:

Week 1: Fri - Sun 3/1 - 3/3 -- Hatsboro-Horsham (Horsham, PA) (finalized)
Week 2: no event scheduled-- HSPA testing in New Jersey
Week 3: Thr - Sat 3/14 - 3/16-- Springside/Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia, PA) (finalized)
Week 3: Thr - Sat 3/14 - 3/16 -- The College of New Jersey (Ewing Township, NJ) (tentative)
Week 4: Fri - Sun 3/22 - 3/24 -- Mt. Olive (Flanders, NJ) (finalized)
Week 4: Fri - Sun 3/22 - 3/24 -- Lenape-Seneca (Tabernacle, NJ) (finalized)
Week 5: no event scheduled-- Holiday Week (Easter and Passover)
Week 6: Fri - Sun 4/5 - 4/7 -- A High School in Central New Jersey (Middlesex or Somerset Counties) (tentative)
Week 7: Thr - Sat 4/11 - 4/13 -- Mid-Atlantic Robotics Region Championship, Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA) (finalized) "

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I was told last year that the Midwest Regional is always held during UIC's spring break (no one else uses the Pavilion that week). According to the UIC Calendar, their Spring Break is March 25-29. I assume this puts the Midwest Regional during Week 5 (March 28-30).

If what I read here is correct, that puts us a week after the Wisconsin Regional which will be better than last year when they were the same weekend. I missed the Wisconsin Regional this year (not that I minded replacing it with the South Florida Regional... first a first year regional they did a GREAT job!)

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Please be careful with speculation about dates and locations. Nothing is confirmed until officially announced by FIRST.

If you make plans for your team before FIRST publishes dates, you may end up having to make changes to those plans. It has happened before.