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Re: FRC Blogged-Something New--Early Release of Event Dates

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Originally Posted by Storcky View Post
It looks like Sunday-Monday was a typo. Those 2 district events have been changed to be Saturday-Sunday events. I think 2 districts in a weekend might be a little much but I'd give it a shot though!
Looks like either there were a bunch of typos with the New England District events or several of the dates changed... Now there are no Sunday-Monday districts. There are only three Saturday-Sunday districts (the three in CT), while there are now two Thursday-Friday districts (UNH Durham and WPI).

This definitely opens things up a fair bit for our team... WPI or Northeastern are big possibilities.

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Originally Posted by Deetman View Post
I'm sure it could be done, but it would be exhausting for the team. The biggest problem with this is earning points towards your district championship. There are lots of lessons learned from your first event that can be applied towards improving your on field performance. Forsaking the 8 hour unbagged window at your shop as well as any fill-in practice you get at your second event could leave you at a severe disadvantage points wise if your performance at the first event was average.
Yeah, it does seem like losing the 8 hours of unbagged time between your two districts would be a huge loss, along with any practice time. Additionally, just running into the second event without the first would cut out really almost any time to sit back and reflect on it.

I suppose it's feasible, but it definitely seems like it'd come at some costs... not the least of which being how tired you'd be on Monday morning! :-)
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