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Originally Posted by Brian Maher
Both Tech Valley and Finger Lakes are held at colleges (RPI and RIT, respectively). This year, both schools have the same spring break, which severely impacts venue availability. No one wanted this. Many teams who have traditionally attended TVR and FLR (such as 2791) are upset that now we have to compete with both upstate and downstate teams in order to attend a second regional in NY.
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I understand there may have been a conflict this year with the schools that may have prevented solving this problem (though, I don't know about it, haven't heard about it, and nothing on RPI's end stands out), but I really just want to emphasize that this "conflict" happens intentionally, every year; the schools (among many other schools in the region) coordinate spring break plans. And yet, this is the first year the regionals are on the same weekend. For the past two seasons, the regionals were on back to back weekends, one at the beginning of spring break and the other at the end. There has to be something else other than "they have the same spring break" causing this conflict, such as both venues being unavailable week 4, or a director wanting to keep week 4 open for HVR, or one of the schools having an athletic event one of the weeks, or something.