[EricH]

Originally Posted by Sean Raia

I do not mean to come off as sounding ignorant, but i feel that everyone regardless of religion should be able to justify attending all of the regional.

Im quite frankly shocked that a team requested a surrogate drive team for this reason!

When you're an Orthodox Jew, it's not exactly a choice, to the best of my knowledge. You're resting during that 24-hour period. It kind of depends on exactly how strict you are in observance of the Sabbath, too. I'm out of my depth if I go any farther than that with explanation, so I'll stop there.

Admittedly, I'm a Protestant, and I have been known to miss church services due to traveling home from an away competition.

On the other hand, almost all of 330's students and their families have also been known to show up at the same service at our home church during build season, coming straight from the shop. (Saturday night service, at the time; Sunday morning seemed to be preferred when competing.) Then there was the time when we "dropped in" en masse on a church whose pastor had recently transferred from our home church... before heading home from an away regional.