[dtengineering]

While I look forward to one day uncrating a robot last year at the championships, I know that last year when I went to volunteer that it was extremely difficult to catch a flight out of Vancouver that would get me in to Atlanta by 5:00. A quick check of Travelocity.ca shows only one flight option that would get us there on time... leaving Vancouver at 5:40am (meaning getting to the airport shortly after 4:00am) and arriving in Atlanta at 3:30 pm. (Assuming that the Transportation Safety Authority doesn't confiscate our tool-bearing luggage, like they did to the FTC teams I was travelling with last year, that is just early enough to get there and uncrate at 5:00.)

I think for teams on the west coast later is probably better. Overseas (and probably Hawaiian and Alaskan teams) are likely stuck with an extra night of hotel bills anyways.

But if FIRST is really interested in changing the timing of some things... how about making kickoff an hour later...?

Jason