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Originally Posted by kenavt
... while the UP teams near Michigan Tech have 9.5 hours to get to Traverse City ...
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I wish people would quit blindly quoting this. Even Google and Mapquest say it's 7.5 hours from Houghton to Traverse City. So unless you're traveling by broken-down school bus that can only reach 47 mph max or have a significant weather delay, this estimate has added at least 2 hours to the actual time needed. (And as anyone who has ever gone to MTU knows, you can go much faster than the speed limit through most of the UP. Not that I admit to ever doing that.
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Travel for the UP teams (and for the second event for northern LP teams) is a significant factor. Let's just not make it more than it really is.