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Posted by P.J. Baker.

Engineer on team #177, Bobcat Robotics, from South Windsor High School and International Fuel Cells.

Posted on 4/19/2000 5:44 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: Nationals at Disney - Negatives posted by Ken Patton on 4/19/2000 5:00 PM MST:



: I agree on the cost issues - we paid a lot this year for rooms and airfares, even though we were on the ball and registered early.

It would be really nice if Disney would give us some sort of a break on the pricing. I know that if you book your own trip for the same dates w/o using the 'FIRST' package it is cheaper (no meal tickets) and your park hopper pass never expires (mine still has two days on it that I plan to use next year). I can see why Disney doesn't give us a break though because we are going during the peak season and not spending that much money in the parks, since we're all in the parking lot most of the time. Maybe if the main event were in the fall, before Thanksgiving, they'd cut us a better deal since it's off peak. I'm sure that this would cause some sort of logistical nightmare and we'd lose a lot of football and soccer players, but I sure wouldn't mind doing this in the fall.



: Another negative - and this could be converted into a positive - is that for all the 'bigtime' status of the 'largest non-Disney event at WDW' we get very little promotion of the whole thing by ABC and Disney. It doesn't seem to me that Disney treats it as 'their' event, with high profile Disney/ABC/ESPN promotion of it. When will we see daily promos of the event on ABC and ESPN like they do for other sporting events? When will they do it live on Wide World of Sports?

I really don't understand this! I've come across the national Cheerleading Championships at least three time in the last 2 months on ESPN. This event is also held at WDW. Everytime I pass it on the dial, I wonder why I'm not seeing robots instead.

P.J.