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Originally Posted by Jason Morrella
Unfortunately when Easter happens to fall in March it's out of FIRST's hands, like this year. Since Easter does fall in March, that means about 1/5 (probably 5 - give or take 1) of the regionals will be held on Easter weekend - nothing they can do about it.
The positive is that now there are MANY more options for teams to choose from than the last time Easter was in March. So at least if any teams decide they just can't compete that weekend (even if it's their "local" or closest event), they will have other regionals in other weeks to choose as an alternate which were not options in the past.
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And, in addition, FIRST regionals run Thursday-Saturday, so you're actually avoiding the Easter holiday itself, anyways.
On that note, my team attended the Midwest Regional on Easter weekend in 2002, and it was actually a good thing (from our school's perspective, at least) because we had that Friday off anyways, and therefore only missed 1 day of school instead of 2. So, there are plusses to having Easter weekend regionals, too.