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Originally Posted by Manoel
Here's our criteria for this year:
- We're going to two regionals.
- They have to be back-to-back - Maybe going home for two days and competing again is bad, but flying 6000 miles home then back in two weeks is just plain stupid.
- We drive from regional to regional. Less than 375 miles is doable, less than 600 miles is manageable, anything over that is stupid.
- We spend a lot on air tickets, so we have to go somewhere culturally relevant. Events in the middle of nowhere aren't really an option.
- We like tough competition.
- We're from a big city (~ 1.3 million people, 4 million metro area) and from a developing country. What most teams consider "big" or "violent" or "not suitable for students" isn't really much for us.
A personal criteria that some mentors share and that will have to be relayed to the school is that we'd like to go to Week 1-2 events this year. |
Not Week 1 & Week 2, but consider Week 3-Chesapeake in Baltimore and Week 4-Washington DC.
Lots of sightseeing opportunities in both locations. If you will have a vehicle and therefore can drive to the venues, you can save $$ on hotels by staying just outside of the city. (For example, lots of cheaper hotels near BWI airport, about 5 miles from Baltimore.)
Baltimore and DC are only about 35 miles apart.