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Originally Posted by DevenStonow
This isn't meant to sound critical of VEX and is meant to be a legitimate question for discussion, but is there any reason, aside from venue contracts(and I guess focusing on the competition structure) that VEX Worlds can't be a week earlier?
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To take this a little further, Vex made the decision back when it parted ways with FIRST to hold their Championship during the same time frame as the FIRST World Championship. I am NOT saying this is the fault of Vex but the April time works great for both programs so unless one of them chooses a different month to start holding their Championship we will have this problem going forward. Additionally every year both programs change what weekend they are held on in April depending on event availability and other factors.
I highly doubt FIRST made the decision to stick it to Vex by having them on the same weekend it is just bad luck it happened. The odds they would have to be on the same weekend is pretty high considering there are only so many weekends in April.