[rufu5]

Please, I mean really, does FIRST need to keep track of over a million things that people do and plan around them? No. Get over it, we have over 800 teams now

I'm not saying that First should reschedule, all I am saying is that they could probably do a better job in looking at other National competitions that encompass High School students and try not to force students to pick between two very large TEAM events. Oh and chess is hundreds of years old and there thousands of chess clubs just in America, almost every high school has a chess club where as there are only 800 teams (Nationwide) that can afford this competition.