[Hoover]

Just FYI, team 4281 received an invite at 10:30 on Thursday. The lead mentor received it as a call from FIRST. The Center School has spring break this week so trying to contact even key team members was difficult. By noon when I was contacted I wasn't even in the area, but might have been able to make Stabler Arena by 3 o'clock when qualifications started.

Being in 67th place we didn't think we could qualify so we had already resigned ourselves that we wouldn't be going so most had gone on with their plans for the week.

I can't help but notice that only 53 teams are there. Might have anyone with a ranking lower then ours wanted to go?

I am wondering how it might have gone if teams that knew they were not going could have pre-declined? Each team notified had to have been given enough time to get resources, notify team members, etc.