1) Has PacNW District moved forward any? I heard that NE was officially announced as a done deal, but nothing that sealed the fate up in PacNW.
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Originally Posted by SciBorg Dave
You can get an advantage with in NW District.
The team can go to a Regional in some other state then come back and play 2 district events. This would gave any team a big advantage.
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The penalty to get this advantage is an additional 4-5k, another weekend of time lost, more travel expenses, etc. It has been done successfully in MAR (and probably FiM, too), but it takes a definite toll on everybody involved. In 7 weeks, you have 1 Regional, 2 Districts, and (you hope) 1 District Championship. This gives you 3 weekends without competitions. And, of course, the ultimate goal is to get to World's in week 9.
It would make for a brutal schedule.
Our team has chosen (subject to change) to instead spend a little extra effort and build a proto-bot during build season so that we can test everything out when we inevitably run out of Build Season. That way, we can still test, program, develop, and train without worrying about the bag time.