[Billfred]

On 2815, we like not-week-1. Palmetto has always been a Week 4-or-5 event, so we've picked our second events for before that. However, last year the positioning of Peachtree at Week 3 (with Palmetto at Week 4) made it so that we were one of the few teams that had played--most of the teams doing two events there chose Palmetto in Week 4 and North Carolina in Week 6 to avoid playing back-to-back. (Now the math changes a bit for 2012 with bag-and-tag. Peachtree and Palmetto are still back-to-back, but there's no obnoxious shipping charge--just the cost of being out of school/work two weeks in a row.)

TLDR: If you're only going to one event and are less concerned with performance, go for a later event--the game is usually better there. If you're only going to one event and you really want to do well*, look at the patterns and figure out how you can play with other people who haven't played.

*Generally, these are mutually exclusive; with few exceptions, everyone performs at a much higher level at their second event.