Re: FRC kick-off 2010 season dates
 

It is just my opinion. I am just too used to competing in week 1 at NJ and want a little change. I wouldn't say there is something "wrong" with week 1, its just different once everyone has played the game for a while versus playing the game for the first time. It is just different. Competition is definitely "harsh," at week 1 regionals. Just look at the Midwest. Those teams are just pure sick. And not to sound condescending, but any time a team does well at a certain regional or competition they tend to think more highly of it. Its of the reasons we love Palmetto and Chesapeake.

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Well, yeah, when my team only lost two matches before the alliance picking at NJ this year, we all realized that we should definitely come back again.

BTW, I didn't think you sounded condescending, not even quite sure why you would think that.

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Nice, that put's our home regional(assuming same week#) during our spring break.

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I've heard officially that there will be 5 weeks of regionals/districts/other events in 2010, so with the first week March 4-6, the last week will be the weekend of April 3. So Minnesota will probably tie everything up.

Of course until venue contracts are all signed FIRST cannot make Regional date announcements, and reserve to themselves the right to make necessary adjustments.

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That's correct 222 was in a similar situation in 2003 as we qualified championships at NJ and had to quickly book flights and such. The only flight we could get out of Houston was an early evening flight....well our team won the national team spirit award that year and due to the flight time members from team 84 had to pick up our award for us.:cool:

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I am really, really sure that it is not yet confirmed. :)

Speculation on the 2010 schedule is not going to be particularly fruitful at this point in time. Why doesn't everyone just relax, take a deep breath, and enjoy the summer off-season without worrying too much about next year. It will be what it will be.

-dave



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was that a game hint? ;P

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Everything Dave puts out is a game hint ... or not :p




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Re: FRC kick-off 2010 season dates
 

An extreme scarcity of Mountain Dew, caused by the previous 6-week build season. By week 2, the supply chain has mostly caught up...
And what fun would that be? That's heresy, almost rising to the level of discontinuing game hints!

Um, seriously though: Speculation needs to be recognized as exactly that. It is a complete waste of time and effort, aside from the entertainment factor. In the real world, like where I work, we do not speculate*, instead we work with factual information, since wasted effort is, well, wasted. So long as you recognize that anything written here will have little influence upon the 2010 season timeline, go wild. Otherwise have the wisdom to accept what you cannot change.

Don

*Brainstorming sessions excluded! We do that a lot.

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But Daaaaave. We can't relax. There are robots to worry about! :D
We have to know how much Mountain Dew to stock up on.

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What relaxing? My contract doesn't say anything about taking the summer off and relaxing... in fact, my FIRST workload doesn't ease up at all. It's pretty much the same, year round. hmm, gotta call FIRST! :rolleyes:

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When we first started, Build season was the busy part of FIRST.
With everything else now, I'm sure many teams will say the busiest part is the off-season.:eek:

Re: FRC kick-off 2010 season dates
 

From the FIRST website, Kick-Off is January 9.
That puts ship date on the February 23.
Also from the website, the Championship is April 15 - 17.

Although not impossible, it would be extremely difficult to have Regionals starting on the February 25th -
that would basically be 1 day for shipping (pick up Tuesday, at the competition by Wednesday night).
(UNLESS - everyone goes to the bagging option??)

So that would make a "likely" schedule -

Week 1 - March 4 - 6
Week 2 - March 11 - 13
Week 3 - March 18 - 20
Week 4 - March 25 - 27
Week 5 - April 1 - 3
Week 6 - April 8 - 10
CHP - April 15 - 17

A tight turn for any week 6 teams that qualify for Atlanta!

Re: FRC kick-off 2010 season dates
 

I think it was that tight in 2006 or 2007 . . I remember one of those years we advanced to the championship on Saturday, got the OK from the district on Monday had to have all the forms filled out by Tuesday. all the money fund raised by Wednesday, and all the bookings by Thursday so we could leave the following Wednesday . . . . . .I hope they are still fiddling with the Championship/Kickoff dates.

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Perhaps FRC is returning to a 5 week schedule? After all there were but 3 events on Week 6, and 2 of them were dual regionals with each other.