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Originally Posted by EricH
How about not having all of the students go to all of the events, or all days of all events? For example, let's say that you have 30 students and 3 events (2 regionals + Championship). Regional 1 is your "home" regional, Regional 2 is your "away" regional.
Regional 1, everybody goes to. It's close. Maybe half the team shows up late-ish on Thursday, the other half shows up late-ish on Friday, something like that. I've been known to not be at a regional until lunchtime Friday, or to take off early on Thursday and show up late Friday to deal with schoolwork.
Regional 2, between 15 and 20 students go to the event. Choose however you need to.
Championship, 15-20 students, but preference is given to those who did not go to Regional 2, or who are critical to the team's operation.
This is assuming, of course, that the school objects to every student going to every event. If they don't have any objection, then take as many as you want to to each event.
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If I understand you, this is basically how we do it. Our school doesn't really object to us bringing students, but they would rather have students in school if they can. They have no problem with our home regional, our principal has even come to the Saturday portion the past two years, and they also have no problem with CMP if we make if because its the world championships. However they arent generally that happy about a second (away) regional, so we try to go to one on our spring break (like we did in 2010) or, unfortunately, not go to a second regional (like we did in 2011).