[Gregor]

Originally Posted by zzzag

Something I haven't seen so far on here...
Why must regional events operate on a Thursday-Friday-Saturday schedule (or Fri-Sat-Sun in NYC)?
While waiting for my team's week 6 regional, I enjoyed watching the webcasts on Friday and Saturday, but for the rest of the week all there was to do was read threads here on Chief Delphi and occasionally meet with the team. And on weekends where two of the teams I wanted to watch were competing in eliminations? Most of the time I ended up going with the higher quality webcast. I also would have liked to see webcasts from the weekend we competed, as a lot of exciting regionals were scheduled for that weekend.
I understand that many mentors can only get the two days (if that) off from work, but why must we have ALL of a week's events running at the same time?
What if we made some events Sun-Mon-Tues?
Even if we assume we can't get fields turned around and moved to a different venue overnight, something like Minnesota's two regionals in the same building simultaneously could be done back-to-back. This would certainly lend itself to the district setup, as two smaller district events could be run back-to-back in places like New York City, to name just one.

tl;dr: Sun-Mon-Tues regionals in addition to Thurs-Fri-Sat

This is actually a neat idea that I've never read anywhere before.