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Thad House 08-07-2015 18:21

Re: 2016 regional dates?
 
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Originally Posted by Navid Shafa (Post 1489360)
I created a spreadsheet to better visualize this year's PNW schedule changes.

*Notes: Weeks are skewed thanks to the moved kickoff date. No more Shorewood district either.



Return to Portland 2016 Confirmed.

I would guess that just like last year, they will add shorewood at the last minute again. We are right on the bubble between 9 and 10 events.

Honestly, I don't like the Portland events being weeks 2 and 5. It means that a Portland team either has to travel, or do back to back events. Both of which have downsides. And since there is no washington event week 4, it means the only Travel event for oregon teams to not go back to back is philomath. If a week 4 washington event doesn't get added, there is going to be some major congestion in Oregon at Wilsonville and Philomath.

Jacob Bendicksen 08-07-2015 18:51

Re: 2016 regional dates?
 
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Originally Posted by Thad House (Post 1489380)
I would guess that just like last year, they will add shorewood at the last minute again. We are right on the bubble between 9 and 10 events.

Honestly, I don't like the Portland events being weeks 2 and 5. It means that a Portland team either has to travel, or do back to back events. Both of which have downsides. And since there is no washington event week 4, it means the only Travel event for oregon teams to not go back to back is philomath. If a week 4 washington event doesn't get added, there is going to be some major congestion in Oregon at Wilsonville and Philomath.

I'm with Thad here...not a huge fan of the Week 5/Week 6 turnaround. I'd imagine that Week 5 is the only date that works for Oregon City, but still, not perfect.

Kingland093 08-07-2015 21:29

Re: 2016 regional dates?
 
Any information out there on the MN regionals? Will they be going back to their normal weeks 2 and 5 dates?

jajabinx124 08-07-2015 23:30

Re: 2016 regional dates?
 
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Originally Posted by Kingland093 (Post 1489402)
Will they be going back to their normal weeks 2 and 5 dates?

*crosses fingers that they go back to their normal week 2 and 5 dates* :D

Tyler Olds 08-07-2015 23:39

Re: 2016 regional dates?
 
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Originally Posted by jajabinx124 (Post 1489414)
*crosses fingers that they go back to their normal week 2 and 5 dates* :D

I really hope that Minneapolis stays week 6. With Wisconsin generally being week 4 for the last few years, teams like mine haven't been able to participate at the Minneapolis regionals being back to back.

jajabinx124 08-07-2015 23:46

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Originally Posted by Tyler Olds (Post 1489415)
I really hope that Minneapolis stays week 6. With Wisconsin generally being week 4 for the last few years, teams like mine haven't been able to participate at the Minneapolis regionals being back to back.

I understand. Back to back regionals doesn't sound that feasible, although some teams have done it, but I can see why most teams don't want to.

I'll be fine if the Minneapolis regionals stay week 6, but what I really want is the Duluth regionals to move back to week 2 again because I would like to avoid the idea of attending a week 1 regional at all costs..

Jon Stratis 08-07-2015 23:48

Re: 2016 regional dates?
 
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Originally Posted by Kingland093 (Post 1489402)
Any information out there on the MN regionals? Will they be going back to their normal weeks 2 and 5 dates?

Nothing official yet... I know there has been difficulty scheduling venues so Duluth, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, and a new regional (which I don't think has been officially announced yet) don't overlap has been difficult.

I will, however, point you to the list of NCAA Championship sites, which has a Women's Gymnastics event in the Sports Pavilion (where the 10,000 Lakes pits are) Saturday April 2, 2016, which is week 5. So, it's a safe bet the Minneapolis events won't be week 5!

Navid Shafa 09-07-2015 00:05

Re: 2016 regional dates?
 
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Originally Posted by Thad House (Post 1489380)
I would guess that just like last year, they will add shorewood at the last minute again. We are right on the bubble between 9 and 10 events.

Knowing last year's number and accommodating for only a small amount of growth, there really isn't an option to not have a 10th district. Last year, quite a few teams would have been extremely geographically inconvenienced without it. Unless there is other information in the wings, I'd bank on it popping up again. Let's just hope it's before everyone starts registering this time...

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Originally Posted by Thad House (Post 1489380)
Honestly, I don't like the Portland events being weeks 2 and 5. It means that a Portland team either has to travel, or do back to back events.

Yep, that sucks. Some venues are unavailable or unwilling to change time slots. While the FRC schedule has shifted, the available calendar dates for some places cause a struggle with planning. I'm sure that wasn't easy to account for this year.

dlom 09-07-2015 01:31

Re: 2016 regional dates?
 
Only one event in Eastern Washington? This is a tragedy.

MikLast 09-07-2015 10:33

Re: 2016 regional dates?
 
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Originally Posted by dlom (Post 1489426)
Only one event in Eastern Washington? This is a tragedy.

CWU is close enough to eastern washington...

Shrub 09-07-2015 11:15

Re: 2016 regional dates?
 
Whenever someone says a regional date is confirmed, I can only think its confirmed for Smash. I'd love to see Minneapolis on week 6 again.

Bryan Herbst 09-07-2015 11:24

Re: 2016 regional dates?
 
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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis (Post 1489419)
Nothing official yet... I know there has been difficulty scheduling venues so Duluth, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, and a new regional (which I don't think has been officially announced yet) don't overlap has been difficult.

I will, however, point you to the list of NCAA Championship sites, which has a Women's Gymnastics event in the Sports Pavilion (where the 10,000 Lakes pits are) Saturday April 2, 2016, which is week 5. So, it's a safe bet the Minneapolis events won't be week 5!

Wait, the gymnasts don't want to compete in the robotics pits!? I just see it as an added challenge!

Kevin Leonard 09-07-2015 11:33

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I really hope the upstate New York events aren't back-to-back weekends again. That was terrible this year. No time for improvement between events and a ton of burnout. It also caused some of our Rochester friends to not compete at the Tech Valley event this year, which was unfortunate.

Normally both colleges do their events on one of the weekends of their spring break. In 2016, RPI's spring break is 3/14-3/18, and RIT's is 3/21-3/25. So as long as RPI does the first weekend of their break again and RIT does the 2nd weekend of their break, we should be fine. Tech Valley could be 3/10-3/12, while Finger Lakes could be 3/25-3/26.

Navid Shafa 09-07-2015 15:52

Re: 2016 regional dates?
 
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Originally Posted by dlom (Post 1489426)
Only one event in Eastern Washington? This is a tragedy.

This is nothing new though. There's only been one qualifying event there since the Spokane Regional started in 2012. There aren't even enough teams as is to fill a single district event in Spokane without others coming in for third plays.

Kingland093 09-07-2015 18:33

Re: 2016 regional dates?
 
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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis (Post 1489419)
Nothing official yet... I know there has been difficulty scheduling venues so Duluth, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, and a new regional (which I don't think has been officially announced yet) don't overlap has been difficult.

I will, however, point you to the list of NCAA Championship sites, which has a Women's Gymnastics event in the Sports Pavilion (where the 10,000 Lakes pits are) Saturday April 2, 2016, which is week 5. So, it's a safe bet the Minneapolis events won't be week 5!

Where will this new regional be and do you know what week? Is that even known yet?


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