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A few members of our team go up to Richmond to attend the kickoff there and pick up our kit, and the rest of the team meets at one of the schools we're based out of and watches the kickoff on TV; after the kickoff is over we brainstorm and eat lunch (always pizza). In previous years, Sunday was not used and we started to refine ideas on Monday with the goal of completing the design by the end of that week. (didn't work out last year, somehow we overlooked the 72x72 rule and discovered on Thursday that our design wasn't legal. That forced us to start over, after a fashion. (the idea remained the same, just drastically different proportions)) This year, we will have a limited Sunday meeting (experienced build team members only) to refine the concepts from the Saturday brainstorming and do a more in-depth analysis of the game in order to go into the build season with a better idea of where we are headed.