[JesseK]

This is all well and good for us to say in a thread as people who have habitual champs attendance problems, but we're already ignoring the environment and frame of mind teams will be in on Saturday. In other words, our words will fall on deaf ears without a much larger microphone.

100% of teams will wake up and go into the Dome on Saturday
65% of teams will have nothing to do but pack up their pit on Saturday, which takes about 30 minutes
95% of teams will have nothing to do for up to 8 hours after lunch, including the 65% of teams who have already been sitting/watching for 3 hours.

It will take something official for teams to stop, IMO. I have tried to stop my own team, and yet been overridden by mentors or (worse) parents who simply disagree because they're the ones who have been sitting for what feels like forever. The kids even made paper airplane templates last year, with team branding and social media contacts.

Please, FIRST, speak up about this.