Thread: All District FIRST?
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Unread 13-04-2013, 01:57
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Re: All District FIRST?
Playing time is very important to my team. As others have stated, the amount of time, energy, and money spent on the construction of the robot warrant an increase in playing time. Our regional this year gave us 8 matches. When I saw the match schedule, I couldn't believe it! The parents of my students were not happy and neither was I. We had a difficult Thursday, missed all practice time, and were left with very little opportunity to work with our machine. I'm sure this story is not unique to my team.

My school district has a difficult time supporting a program that costs so much per pupil. When they hear that we are competing against 60 or so other teams for a handful of shots at advancing, and we only get 8-9 opportunities/18-20 minutes of playing time, the program becomes even harder to justify. It is hard to explain this whole 18 minutes of competition with 3 days in the hotel to the AD.

I would support any model that increases playing time while reducing time spent away from school in hotels.
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