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Before they moved Palmetto to Charleston we drove 1.5 hours, now its more like 4 (w/ stops). Atlanta for Championships was a little over 3 hours, now I'm going to be taking a 12 hour trip next week to get to St. Louis.

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1075 being from Whitby, ON, our travel times recently have been:

FLR Wk 1, 2011: 3.5 hrs
Waterloo Wk 4, 2011: 1.75 hrs
Greater Toronto East Wk 5, 2011: 1 hr
Brunswick Eruption, offseason 2010: 10 hrs
Kettering Kickoff, offseason 2010: 6 hrs
Championship, Atlanta 2010: ~18-20 hrs
Greater Toronto Wk 5, 2010: 1 hr
Waterloo Wk 4, 2010: 1.75 hrs

All told 2 seasons, 86 hrs of travel time.

Since our founding in 2003, we've done:

Canadian Regional/ Greater Toronto Regional / Greater Toronto East Regional: 2003-2004, 2006-2011
Waterloo Regional: 2008-2011
Finger Lakes Regional: 2011
Championship: 2010
Kettering Kickoff: 2007-2010
Brunswick Eruption: 2008-2010
Wonderland Invitational: 2004 (2006, too, technically, but we broke the robot the night before and didnt compete)

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I agree, that'd be awesome.

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Some close regionals to us:

New Jersey: 40 minutes on a bus.
Philly: 30 minutes on a bus.
New York City: 2 - 2.5 hours on a bus.
Chesapeake: 2 hours on a bus.
DC: 3 hours on a bus.
Pittsburgh: 6-7 hours on a bus.

All of those times decrease about 10-20% when driving in a car, if not more.

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Its 30 Minutes to SVR for us, and 2.5 hours for Sacramento.

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Let me tell you, it is nice to do that.


Great Lakes ~1 hour
Chicago ~5 hr
Detroit ~1hour
West ~2.5hrs
CMP ~14 bus


With the new District Model with 397/3450:
Kettering: 5 minutes
West: 2.5 hrs
TC: 4 hrs (397/3450 didn't compete here but many of the mentors were there)
Troy: 1hr
MSC: 1hr (for the team, for many of the mentors who live outside of Flint it is a longer drive because there is no straight path)


The gist of it, in SE Michigan we lucked out and are no more than 2 hours away from a large number of events.

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Prior to the Michigan District model, we drove down to Chicago (~5.5 hours) on a school bus. To top that off, we left at 2am in the morning to get there at a "reasonable" time.

Other than that, ATL was the longest drive. Normally, it is about 12 hours on a coach, but last year was significantly longer. We were to leave at the beginning of school (7:15am), but the bus we were assigned was broken so they had to get another. We didn't leave the school for another two hours or so. Then, our bus was having some annoying alarm going off, so we stopped at a gas station for 20 minutes. Then the bus broke down right outside of Metro Airport (spent another hour at least there while a new bus was brought to us). I think we got to ATL around 12 ish.

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This is roughly how much Team Titanium has traveled, and when:

('08-'11) Kansas City: 30-40 mins.
('07, '11) St. Louis: 4 hrs.
('09-'10) 10000 Lakes/North Star: 8 hrs.
('08, '11) Denver: 10 hrs.
('09-'10) Atlanta 15 hrs.

I'm glad we get to stay in state for Championships this year. For Atlanta last year we left at 11pm and got down there at 2pm the next day.

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FLR is 11 miles away from our site which is about 20 minutes away.
The Jones dome is 812 miles away. That's about 13 plus hpurs away and they are taking a bus there.

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2005: Florida - ~1 hour, Atlanta - ~10 hours
2006: Florida - ~1 hour, Boston - ~2.5 hours(Flight), Atlanta - ~10hours
2007: Florida - ~1 hour, Waterloo - ~4 hours(Flight+Drive), Atlanta - ~10 hours
2008: Florida - ~1 hour, Colorado - ~3 hours(Flight), Atlanta - ~10 hours
2009: Florida - ~1 hour, Connecticut - ~3 hours, Atlanta - ~10 hours
2010: Florida - ~1 hour, Colorado - ~3 hours(Flight), Atlanta - ~10 hours
2011: Florida - ~1 hour, Tennessee - ~12 hours

All times are given for trip there, for entire travel double each time.

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Same trips, different years, plus Oklahoma at 5 hours.

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It'll be about 15 miles, after we fly 4300+ miles to get there. :)
being in Orlando doesn't help when you still have to get home later this week.

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This year, it was about four hours (maybe 3.5) to Peachtree and about two hours to Palmetto.

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Our team drives 1 hour to get to the Kettering District event. We also go to the Ann Arbor District event, which is housed in our school, making this trip a dreaded 6 minute drive from home :D . Michigan State Championship is across town, so this is a 15 minute drive. To top it off, our team will drive to St. Louis. This drive will take 9 hours.

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Team 20 has gone to WPI in just over 2 hours, CT in around 2 and a half, NH in about 3, FLR in about 3, Atlanta in about 20 hours and St. Louis is going to be 15 minutes less than Atlanta (hooray!!!)