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Pearadox did a kickoff at our school last year with a visiting team as well. We had a parent that was kind enough to drive the 60+ minutes to the local kickoff and pick up our kit and bring it back. Alternatively you can have it shipped - but if you're within a reasonable driving distance you should definitely just go pick it up. Additionally it's too late this year to have it shipped instead of being picked up. Another option is to have a team be a surrogate and pick it up for you, there's some paperwork that will be available if you have another team pick up your kit for you.

Last year a veteran team joined us and we had a guest speaker, did some interteam ice breakers, and did a quick analysis of what we saw in the kickoff video before the other team went back to their school.

This year we're inviting a few more local teams (one veteran that we're friends with and two rookies). We'll do something similar - guest speaker, what did we see in the kickoff video, etc. We're inviting the rookies to stay for a lunch that we're trying to get a local grocery store to sponsor, and talk through the game a little more in depth with the rookies and answer any questions they may have.

Unrelated to that, we'll probably have a mentor or two look through the team drawings Saturday morning to get a BOM together and go purchase wood for building major field elements. Around 3 or so we'll probably start building the field with the intent being to visually look at the field so we can get an idea of how big/far certain things are before we make any major decisions on our game play strategy.