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Originally Posted by Hallry
Great questions, but I wish there was more opening towards somehow working with VEX to avoid the overlap after 2015...
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I completely agree and I have been known to be hard on FIRST in the past for not discussing this problem more in public. However the FRC calendar is far more restrictive than the VEX calendar. The only other weekend for 2015 that is even remotely available to FIRST would be Apr 29th - May 3rd and that would require students to return from St. Louis and immediately start taking AP tests. At this point it's really hard for both programs to avoid this conflict. If VEX can't reserve their venue for the gap weekend between week 7 and FRC championships, it's pretty much impossible for their not to be a conflict. It's possible to have VEX Worlds during Week 7 but more and more FRC teams have to compete then. Another option would be week 6 but that shortens the VRC season by almost a full month which isn't fair to the teams that don't also compete in FRC; which is a huge majority of them.
I have been attending both championships for the past two seasons and they have been two of my favorite weekends both years. However, I understand the problems with the calendar and I can only hope that VEX is able to move back a week in the future. (2014 isn't possible due to the Easter Holiday.)