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Just a quick observation comparing last season and this season on event postings:

Early release of the 2014 events dates was begun on 14 Aug 2013 with a very comprehensive list of both Regional and District events (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh....php?t=118446).

Early release of the 2015 events dates began on 25 Jun 2014. As of 15 Aug 2014, dates are posted for only 20 Regional events.

Postings for this season started out seven weeks earlier than last season, but the posting this season have been painfully slow. Last season at this time, we knew four times as much as we do this season.

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3 things to keep in mind:

1) FRC Headquarters can only put up the dates as fast as the RPCs give them up in some cases.

2) Some dates are already somewhat locked in but not officially reported (The Virginia Regional in 2014 was up on the venue's calendar for what had to have been a month+ before HQ posted it)

3) HQ has made the option this year to not post events yet until they are 100% confirmed. I believe not ALL districts have not reported ALL of their dates and ALL of their confirmed venues, and that made up a fair portion of the list as well.

So far 10 fewer regional dates have been confirmed at this time for the 2015 season than there was this time last year for the 2014 season.

And for what it's worth, both are light years ahead of the insufferable date-bomb FIRST used to drop on us around Labor Day in the past, where you got all your dates at once. As it stands, teams are able to process calendars around one or two regional events a month ahead of time (and a crucial month, since all schools are back in session by September and some are starting now).

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Peachtree regional (Atlanta) will be March 27-29. Fri-Sun, if I wrote the dates down correctly, at the GWCC. It will be a little smaller plus a second Georgia regional tentatively in Perry, GA early season. This was announced in the mentor advisory meeting last Sat (2014.08.16).

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Los Angeles is a Week 3 competition this year? Moved up a week.

Nothing up yet on the LVR... or a new California regional.

But now LA and Hawaii are two weeks apart. Maybe we can go to Hawaii!?!?

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On top of these two, we got a few more:

Pheonix East Arizona - Week 4
SBPLI Long Island - Week 5
Finger Lakes - Week 5

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Any idea what drove the decision to move it to a Friday-Sunday event?

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MAR schedule was announced on their website:

Week 1: Feb. 27-March 1 – Hatboro-Horsham, Horsham, PA
Week 2: March 6-8 – Mount Olive, Flanders, NJ
Week 3: March 12-14 – Springside-Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA
Week 4: March 20-22 – Seneca-Lenape, Tabernacle, NJ
Week 5: March 27-29 – Bridgewater-Raritan, Bridgewater, NJ
Week 5: March 27-29 – Upper Darby, Upper Darby, PA
Week 6: April 2-4 – North Brunswick, North Brunswick, NJ
Week 7: April 8-11 – MAR Championship, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

It's nce to see a Pennsylvania event later in the season.


Also fun fact: This is the fourth different name the district at Seneca High School has gone by.

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Now here's to hoping FiM follows soon...

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Mainly I'm overjoyed to finally have a central NJ district. Now we can guarantee one event without travel costs! :)

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Seems like MAR finally decided to allow a Week 2 event and an Easter weekend event.

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To clarify, MAR used to not schedule any week 2 events due to HSPA testing in NJ. In 2015 NJ will no longer be administering the HSPA. Instead students will take the PARCC test. High schools are free to determine their own schedule for PARCC testing so each school district will be different.

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Less than five weeks remain until Registration begins for the 2015 season. By this time on the 25th of Sept, Mark McLeod will have posted numerous times giving us all a breakdown of how the first day has gone; which events are full and how many teams have registered. Just can't wait for the madness to begin one more time!

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Are you calling me mad?

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Nope, I think he was calling you Awesome.