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Originally Posted by DevenStonow
Sunday-Monday events are weird, maybe it was just a typo/error on FIRST's part?
In regards to the shift to Saturday-Sunday, with the shift to districts, it's kind of an inevitability, as it's much easier to have events at a HS without having to worry about interfering with the Friday school day(all that directly coincides with it is setup for the field, so all the school really has to do is just move gym classes/restrict parking).
And in regards to webcast viewership, personally, I find it much easier to pay attention to more elimination matches, mainly the Sunday afternoon ones, as it's less events overall and easier to pay attention than "ten regionals on one screen"(as well as being able to get other work, ie. homework, especially if your team is meeting all day saturday)
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I'm not critical of Saturday-Sunday events as a whole... just surprised that there are only two Friday-Saturday districts in New England. The Saturday-Monday does seem odd; however, I highly doubt it's a typo... that is within the realm of possibility for sure though.
My comment on the webcast viewership had little to do with there being Saturday-Sunday events... having the elims nationwide spread out over two days is actually kind of nice. I more meant the fact that - at least in New England - we now have Thursday-Friday and Sunday-Monday events! It seems to me that having three or four different days that elims are on starts getting too spread out...