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Originally Posted by mom1155
The NYC Regional is Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Some advantages are that teams only miss 1 day of school, not 2 and that people who worship on Saturday or Sunday, can participate 1 day.
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Perhaps I'm just missing something, but I don't see how a Friday -> Sunday regional would be an improvement... For those who worship on Saturdays, you still miss one day of competition. For those who worship on Sundays, you now miss one day instead of none! From that perspective it's clearly not an improvement.
But, as you said, it means most people need only miss one day of school and one day of work... While it is good to minimize the amount of days missed from school or work, comparing one day at school/work to one day at competition isn't comparing apples to oranges.
It's fairly easy to take a day off of school to go to a co-curricular event and employers are usually quite understanding about taking a day off to work with your team at a Robotics event! Extremely few people are omitted from a Thursday -> Saturday event for employment/education reasons. By contrast, those that have their day of worship on Saturday or Sunday are asked to put a day of a competition above worshiping God... Some teams, as a result, are not able to attend competition on either the second day or on the third day, which clearly puts you out of the running for success on the field.
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Originally Posted by MarcD79
FIRST does its best to accommodate on the large scale. It has to appease the majority, not minority.
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While this definitely has been true, it seems hard to say this would remain true if more regionals switch to a Friday -> Sunday schedule, where people of almost any religion are asked to skip worshiping God that weekend.