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Doug G

21-09-2009 21:59

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Originally Posted by Fe_Will (Post 874917)

This is the most confusing date and totally conflicts with what I heard... From my understanding it is set for week 3. At least that's what Oregon teams were told a week ago.

Overall I'm pretty disappointed in the slow turn-around of information. I understand that there are only so many bodies at FIRST but its not like they didn't have months to get these details set in stone. Lead time is important if teams are going to make sound travel plans and not pay dearly to travel to distant regionals.

I'm stumped at this one too. Checking out the UCD ARC Pavillion reservation system shows it is booked from Tuesday 3/30 thru Friday 4/2. Which would support this midweek regional idea. Perhaps this is an attempt to avoid Easter Sunday travel? The sad thing for us, is we get the week after Easter off, not the week before. So for us to attend this regional which is just minutes away, I need to pull students out from school for a couple of days before their Spring Break. Strange.....

Fe_Will

21-09-2009 22:09

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Originally Posted by Doug G (Post 875117)

Sadly, Davis is one of the top two second regionals on our list... But a mid-week regional right after our spring break won't go over too far with parents and administrators. Hopefully its just a typo :confused:

Doug G

21-09-2009 22:38

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Originally Posted by Fe_Will (Post 875122)

Careful, Easter is Sunday, April 3. You may have the week off if you get the week before easter off.

Fe_Will

22-09-2009 02:38

Re: 2010 Regional Dates

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Originally Posted by Doug G (Post 875128)

Careful, Easter is Sunday, April 3. You may have the week off if you get the week before easter off.

We have the 22nd to 26th off... no dice.

Raul	24-09-2009 13:31

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Real dates are posted now:
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...ts.aspx?id=430

Raul	24-09-2009 13:34

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And the Michigan events are here:
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...t.aspx?id=9508

Akash Rastogi

24-09-2009 14:47

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A note to those wondering why NJ is 5th-7th:

There were many teams who's school would not allow ANY students to travel during our state testing for juniors (and practice testing for freshmen and sophomores). These teams should be very thankful to the NJ planning committee and the Sovereign Bank Arena.

flyingcrayons

24-09-2009 15:25

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I love the NJ planning committee... and you too akash ;)

AndyB

24-09-2009 15:30

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Midwest, Boilermaker, and St. Louis all on the same weekend? That's a bit... weird. Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Kansas City might be seeing some new teams as a result.

Koko Ed

24-09-2009 15:32

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Originally Posted by Koko Ed (Post 874877)

Well this gives me a vague idea of what my vacation time will be next year.

Schedule confirmed.

GearsOfFury

24-09-2009 15:38

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Originally Posted by AndyB (Post 875517)

Midwest, Boilermaker, and St. Louis all on the same weekend? That's a bit... weird. Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Kansas City might be seeing some new teams as a result.

Plus, Wisconsin is the week before Midwest/Boilermaker/St. Louis - not cool for shipping! I'm sure they tried the best they could, but this makes it a lot more expensive for Chicago-area teams to do a 2nd regional...

Aren_Hill

24-09-2009 16:13

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Well they mentioned teams being able to bag the robot and bring it themselves to certain events, this would make a back to back regional doable (wisconsin and midwest), main tough part there is the team missing 2 regionals straight worth of school.

Still rather annoying to put 3 midwest(area) regionals all on the same weekend

IndySam

24-09-2009 16:22

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Originally Posted by AndyB (Post 875517)

Midwest, Boilermaker, and St. Louis all on the same weekend? That's a bit... weird. Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Kansas City might be seeing some new teams as a result.

Yup and if we are frozen out of the Michigan events again this schedule is just plain awful!!!!

Travis Hoffman

24-09-2009 16:25

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Originally Posted by IndySam (Post 875527)

Yup and if we are frozen out of the Michigan events again this schedule is just plain awful!!!!

b-u-c-k-e-y-e

p-i-t-t-s-b-u-r-g-h

w-a-t-e-r-l-o-o (buses of students 18 and under don't need passports)

Mark McLeod

24-09-2009 16:26

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Originally Posted by Aren_Hill (Post 875525)

Well they mentioned teams being able to bag the robot and bring it themselves to certain events, this would make a back to back regional doable...

I hope they tell us about shipping rules before registration opens, rather than at Kickoff, so we can make these decisions, otherwise, it has to remain on the undoable list.

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