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And we will welcome you with open arms!! We missed you last year!

Lori Hall

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That looks like the exact opposite of us.

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Northern lights will fill up insta-fast you should register there first :) .

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Please come to Midwest! We want to compete with 2826 at least once this year! :)

Though with Wisconsin separated from Midwest this year, we might end up in Milwaukee as well. But that's just me speculating.

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973 plans to do;

Week 1 - Central Valley Regional

Week 4 - Los Angeles Regional

Week 6 - Las Vegas Regional

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The crystal ball is becoming less cloudy, but still much to discuss and decide.

One scenario heavily discussed today was:

Week 2: New York City

Week 4: Queen City

Week 6: Crossroads

with Finger Lakes as a possible alternate to New York if the costs of staying in the area are too high. Where can we stay in Manhattan for less than $100 a night? Haha.

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With the latest dates released we are going to try and make it to:
Week 4: Phoenix Regional
and hopefully:
Week 6: Silicon Valley Regional

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Newark.

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We meet tonight to dicsuss our plans.

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2168 has discussed two basic options at this time; either GSR and CT, or WPI and CT. We are looking to save some money and stay close to home this year. Personally I will do some volunteering again at Boston, and maybe another NE Regional.

With the district model being discussed heavily in New England, I strongly encourage teams from outside the area to make the trip up here this year if they have never had the chance.

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I will echo this sentiment.


For the NUTRONs, we're looking at this schedule:

Week 2: San Diego or Oralndo

Week 4: Boston

Week 6: Pine Tree


-Brando

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Ursa Major rough draft of events
DC: week 5
Chesapeake: week 7
*This is tentive since cheaspeake is the last regional on schedule possible go to and earlier regional

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Although I know you are kidding, getting from the NJ side into the NYC regional is not incredibly difficult - I know it's hard for a larger group but the NJ Transit's Northeast Corridor runs from Trenton > Princeton Junction > New Brunswick > Newark > NYC... If you could find a hotel along the NECorridor line, you could probably stay somewhere for cheap and get some train passes. This also applies to staying somewhere outside of Manhattan and using the Subway (maybe- I'm not as familiar with that system)

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Actually I wasn't kidding. The one time I went to NYC I stayed outside the Newark Airport (I saw a constant steady stream of planes landing til I fell asleep) and I took the train in (I was shocked how fast trains that didn't stop at the platform zoomed past the platform AT THE PLATFORM). If you're gonna go to NYC unless you got some super crazy deal I would suggest going that route.

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Okay maybe not. There is a different proposal on the table among the mentors I just heard of, so we'll see how it turns out.

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Let me ask one question. With bag and tag now, is there any real problem in doing two regionals in consecutive weeks? I'm thinking not. Opinions?

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We're thinking of the following schedule.
Week 1 Madera
Week 4 Sacramento
Week 6 Canada West Regional
Anyone have Any predictions on how fast these will be filling up this year?

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Missing school days two weeks in a row is a problem for most students. It's been labeled a show-stopping problem by the teachers on our team.

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We kiddos get burned out, 2 regigonals is enough already. Plus our teachers wouldn't like that...

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So the Bayou Regional is our home and this year is week 4. Our spring break happens to fall on week 5. While it would nice to go to a regional on spring break (so us kids wouldnt miss school) no one really wants to go back-to-back regionals. That knocks out Smokey Mt and Alamo, leading us to favor Lone Star.

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There is no time to make changes or improvements. It's also hard on everyone involved.

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Looking like NYC week 2 and Hartford week 5 for 694 again, hopefully not our last year playing in the Hartford area #districts.

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You kiddos, imagine the toll it plays on us old mentors. Among the missing school thing, back to back weeks is a very tiresome thing for the whole team, students and mentors. Plus if you need to make in spares or replacement parts, there isn't much turn around to do it.

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Looks like we are registering for:

Week 4 - QCR

Week 6 - Crossroads


Crossroads depends on funding

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In 2012, we did NYC in week 3 (Fri, Sat, Sun) followed by Boston in week 4 (Thurs, Fri, Sat). Most of the issues have been brought up, but we did experience all of them.

The week 3 in NYC was nice because the students only had to miss 1 day of school for that event, but missing 3 days total over a 6 day span was difficult for many of them. Doing NYC put us back in the Boston area around 10pm Sunday night, which meant a rough start to the week. Fitting in time to make the modifications/tweaks along the way also ate up more time and pushed us physically/mentally.

By the end of the Boston regional we were all quite exhausted. We're avoiding a back-to-back at all costs unless we have no other options.

-Brando

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If we did two regionals, our students and teachers are off school on spring break for the first one, and both regionals are local. Only two days of school missed total. With those factors, I'm thinking it could work.

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http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/b...l?id=170752786

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It totally sucks, but there's no reason that it won't work.

We did SVR and Madera back to back last year. It's incredibly stressful, very difficult to make changes or get more practice in, and completely draining to be going nonstop for 2 weeks.

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KOKO ED:

"WEEK 6: I want to go back to Midwest but Hawaii and Las Vegas are available too. Hawaii is most likely out because Southwest does not fly there and last time I tried to apply to Las Vegas no one called me back and I switched out foe Queen City. I know Dee will call me back for Midwest!"

Ed, did you apply personally as a volunteer or are you talking about trying to register your team to compete in Vegas...and when did you apply? I am on the planning committee for the regional and want to make sure you and anyone or any team who contacts us has their contact returned. If you are still interested in joining us this year please let me know and I will be sure to look into hooking you (or your team) up. Just IM me and I guarantee I will get back to you ;)

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I applied as a volunteer and was waiting for weeks for a response. Jimmy Nichols was pressing hard for me to serve as lead que at Queen City so I switched out.

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So sorry to hear about the communication problem. I will follow up with a talk to our Volunteer Coordinator and try to see what may have happened...he has always been very good about processing requests. Was your request only through VIMS or was it direct through our website? If you or anyone else finds it easier to communicate with me I will happily play the middle man. I am going to be the main team liaison for all potential or registered teams to LVR this year.

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I applied through VIMS.

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So when Registering for competitions this year do you think that the Wild Card will affect which regional's fill up first? Will a week 3 or 4 event fill up quicker than a week 1 or 2 event? Any thought may be helpful for teams registering for events.

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Most definitely. If teams are planning on attending say, a week 1 regional and a week 4 regional with traditional fill up times being the same, the week 4 regional will fill up faster this year for sure. If it is a tossup between these 2 regionals, and one has a potential additional qualifying spot, I know which event I would select first.

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The Robonauts are going to be very excited to play with some west coast teams during week 6 at Silicon Valley.

If registration works out, we're also planning on Lone Star during week 2 and Bayou during week 4.

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Awesome!

We may end up doing some travelling of our own in an earlier week.

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Come to Canada!!!!

Or go to FLR :D!

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We would love to have you guys come to Bayou! Texas teams are always fun to have and this is particularly true for NASA friends. (if memory serves me well, this we be y'alls first time back since 2008)

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With the events officially up on the FIRST website my final choices are:
1. FLR
2. Orlando
3. Pittburgh
4. Boston
5. GTR West (I can rent a car with a working GPS that acknowledges the existence of Canada. Doing two years without GTR is not good for my mental state)
6. Midwest (I owe Dee)
7. MSC
8. Championship

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Team 696 has attended the LA Regional every year and occationally attend a second regional which is San Diego.

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After a passionate debate, Team 48 has decided to attend:

Week 2 - New York City

Week 4 - Queen City

Week 6 - Crossroads

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Any teams going to DC or Chespeake I will be at both

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Yay!

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Team 2410, BV CAPS Metal Mustang Robotics, has officially registered for our first event, Week 3 Greater Kansas City Regional! :D :D :D :D :D

(on a side note, did you know there's a limit to how many emoticons you can add?)

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Teams 229 and 4124 are registered for GSR Week 1!
(So much credit to the awesome Clarkson mentors for camping by their computers to get them registered! Thanks Casey & James! :D)

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We are also now registered for Kansas City. We look forward to catching up with 2410 - maybe we can scout together again.

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FIRST Team 45 made it into Boilermaker before it filled. While I'm sad to not see 3940 on the list this year I'm glad to welcome 359 from Hawaii to Indiana.

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I am really excited 229 and 4124 are coming to GSR! :)

We are registered for GSR with a second event to come soon!

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The Aztechs, Team 157, are registered for WPI and are excited to see familiar teams on the list, as well as meet new ones!

Hoping for Boston with our second regional registration. :)

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Our plans changed due to a mix-up. We're doing WPI and looking at Boston or Maine.

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3929 is registered for Chestnut Hill District so far, and plans to register for Mt. Olive on the 11th. Hopefully CHA fills up nicely.

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3737 will be attending Raleigh, and is registered for Myrtle Beach as well, though the second is subject to change depending on our financial situation in 2 months.

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As a volunteer, I know I'll be making the Peachtree Regional for 2 of the 3 days. After week 3, I was thinking of heading to a week 4 event, since it is at the end of my Spring Break. Maybe Bayou or Dallas, since that's not too far from Atlanta, though I may always try to fly standby to check out Waterloo, who knows? (Oh, what I would do to volunteer on the same field that 1114 and 2056 play on). Though as of now, Bayou might be winning my vote since it's closer to home and I could see the Robonauts live.

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I'll be at GTR East, Waterloo, and GTR West. Team is still undecided.

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2080 is registered for Bayou, now we just have to decide on one other regional from the few we have it narrowed down to. I'm already counting down to Bayou, it should be fun with the teams expressing interest!

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Team 1817 will be at Hub City and Dallas regionals.

and hopefully championships of course.

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Skunkworks Robotics will be trying to attend the following regionals:

Week 4 Central Washington
Week 5 Seattle
Week 6 Spokane

I know ... its crazy... but our school's teachers support our program..and are going to go on Friday to Spokane with most of the team. (we have 65 members on the team this year...)

It will be a tough three weeks...

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Holy Cow....and we thought 2 regionals in a row was too much

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That's going to be brutal :yikes:. Get plenty of sleep on your 4 days off...

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Week 2 makes me smile :D

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I am a FRC Coach/Mentor I don't know the meaning of the words "days off" or "rest".
At least not from January to May

Last year we worked every single day of the build season... well not all the students did but I did...(except the 6 days we lost because of snow...)

i think we had a couple of days off sometime during the competition season....
but it was pretty much a blur to me... we did 3 regionals last year too but not in a row... (and CMP)

It's a great time ... but exhausting

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2068 is heading back to the Virginia regional and we are bringing 4472 (Rookie) with us!

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4183 will be at the Phoenix regional and probably one more in the Southwest. Maybe San Diego...

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We (Team 999) are probably going to end up going to CT and NYC or CT and the closest regional that's still open because we ended up not signing up in time for NYC last year. However, we're going to do our best to go to 2 regionals this year even if we don't get into NYC.

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Week 1-Finger Lakes-Team
Week 2-GTR East-Volunteering*
Week 4-Waterloo-Spectating(Saturday only)*
Week 5-GTR West-Team


*not with the team