[Joe G.]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

It is interesting how Week 3 in NE is currently the quietest week of competitions after the second wave of registration with only 37 teams signed up (26 at Pine Tree and 11 at Dartmouth).

We shall see when another wave of registration opens and teams sign up for their third events. I know our team and others aren't planning to register for a third and condensing the schedule down to 5 weeks can deter more third events as there are only a select few events you can sign up for to avoid competing on back to back weekends. Totally doable but we aren't jumping at it.

With the five week schedule, 1/3/5 is the only way to do three events without doing anything back to back. Since Pine Tree and Umass Dartmouth are arguably the two most remote New England Events, I could imagine that a large number of teams trying to do this schedule registered for their Week 1 and 5 events first, in order to try to get their home events first, and beat the registration rush for Nashua, Hartford, and Northeastern, all of which have a history of filling fast (and did again this year). I know that we seriously considered taking this course of action, before ultimately settling on attempting a 1/4/5 schedule.