How far does your team drive?

[Chris is me]

WPI and Connecticut are a little over 2 hours away from us. Someone told me once that CT was closer, but I still don't understand the geography here very well.

I'm hoping for an RPI Regional someday. I'd love to just roll out of bed and go.

[Josh Drake]

We went 4 hours to Palmetto and 5 hours to North Carolina. Now it's 12 hours to St. Louis! Peachtree is the closest at 1.5 hours.

[Dancin103]

We are 1.5 hours from the Philly regional. When we went to the Jersey regional we were 1 hour from there. We have gone to the Chesapeake regional before and that is 4 hours. We have driven to Championships in Atlanta and that was a 14 hour drive. We also drove to Florida once for Championships, that was about 18 to 20 hours on a bus.

[Robby Unruh]

My family takes yearly trips to Disney World, and we always drive, so I'm use to whole thing about sitting still for 18-20 hours... but with FRC, it's like 10 florida drives just to get from Dayton to Cleveland. I guess it's just the anticipation.

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I long for the day I can drive from my home to the competiton in <1 hour. It'd be awesome to get a good night's sleep in your own bed before competing.

[Alex Dinsmoor]

We have drove in the past 4 years...
4 hours for Traverse City
40 minutes for Detroit
1 hour for Kettering
1.2 hours for MSC/GLR
6 hours for Boilermaker
14 hours for Atlanta

And those aren't even the closest competitions to us.

Within an hour of our school is...
Troy: 10 Minutes
Waterford: <20 Minutes
Livonia: 50 Minutes
Ann Arbor: Around an Hour

And of course St. Louis is a nice 9 hour drive, but we aren't going this year.

[big1boom]

We are doing 40 minutes to Midwest, 2 hours to Wisconsin, and 5 hours to St. Louis this year. (Wednesday crew is driving, everyone else is taking Amtrak)

Furthest we have done is 8 hours for 10k lakes.

[yarden.saa]

40 minutes bus to Israel regional

[Alan Anderson]

In recent years our drives have included ~1 hour to Boilermaker (West Lafayette, IN), ~3.5 hours to Chicago, ~5.5 hours to St. Louis, ~9 hours to Toronto, and 12+ hours to Washington, DC. The Boilermaker Regional is close enough that we make the trip there and back each day.

[Boydean]

Before they moved Palmetto to Charleston we drove 1.5 hours, now its more like 4 (w/ stops). Atlanta for Championships was a little over 3 hours, now I'm going to be taking a 12 hour trip next week to get to St. Louis.

[Racer26]

1075 being from Whitby, ON, our travel times recently have been:

FLR Wk 1, 2011: 3.5 hrs
Waterloo Wk 4, 2011: 1.75 hrs
Greater Toronto East Wk 5, 2011: 1 hr
Brunswick Eruption, offseason 2010: 10 hrs
Kettering Kickoff, offseason 2010: 6 hrs
Championship, Atlanta 2010: ~18-20 hrs
Greater Toronto Wk 5, 2010: 1 hr
Waterloo Wk 4, 2010: 1.75 hrs

All told 2 seasons, 86 hrs of travel time.

Since our founding in 2003, we've done:

Canadian Regional/ Greater Toronto Regional / Greater Toronto East Regional: 2003-2004, 2006-2011
Waterloo Regional: 2008-2011
Finger Lakes Regional: 2011
Championship: 2010
Kettering Kickoff: 2007-2010
Brunswick Eruption: 2008-2010
Wonderland Invitational: 2004 (2006, too, technically, but we broke the robot the night before and didnt compete)

[M.Wong]

Prior to the Michigan District model, we drove down to Chicago (~5.5 hours) on a school bus. To top that off, we left at 2am in the morning to get there at a "reasonable" time.

Other than that, ATL was the longest drive. Normally, it is about 12 hours on a coach, but last year was significantly longer. We were to leave at the beginning of school (7:15am), but the bus we were assigned was broken so they had to get another. We didn't leave the school for another two hours or so. Then, our bus was having some annoying alarm going off, so we stopped at a gas station for 20 minutes. Then the bus broke down right outside of Metro Airport (spent another hour at least there while a new bus was brought to us). I think we got to ATL around 12 ish.

[1986titans]

This is roughly how much Team Titanium has traveled, and when:

('08-'11) Kansas City: 30-40 mins.
('07, '11) St. Louis: 4 hrs.
('09-'10) 10000 Lakes/North Star: 8 hrs.
('08, '11) Denver: 10 hrs.
('09-'10) Atlanta 15 hrs.

I'm glad we get to stay in state for Championships this year. For Atlanta last year we left at 11pm and got down there at 2pm the next day.

[dodar]

2005: Florida - ~1 hour, Atlanta - ~10 hours
2006: Florida - ~1 hour, Boston - ~2.5 hours(Flight), Atlanta - ~10hours
2007: Florida - ~1 hour, Waterloo - ~4 hours(Flight+Drive), Atlanta - ~10 hours
2008: Florida - ~1 hour, Colorado - ~3 hours(Flight), Atlanta - ~10 hours
2009: Florida - ~1 hour, Connecticut - ~3 hours, Atlanta - ~10 hours
2010: Florida - ~1 hour, Colorado - ~3 hours(Flight), Atlanta - ~10 hours
2011: Florida - ~1 hour, Tennessee - ~12 hours

All times are given for trip there, for entire travel double each time.

[vhcook]

Originally Posted by 1986titans

This is roughly how much Team Titanium has traveled, and when:

('08-'11) Kansas City: 30-40 mins.
('07, '11) St. Louis: 4 hrs.
('09-'10) 10000 Lakes/North Star: 8 hrs.
('08, '11) Denver: 10 hrs.
('09-'10) Atlanta 15 hrs.

Same trips, different years, plus Oklahoma at 5 hours.

[Billfred]

This year, it was about four hours (maybe 3.5) to Peachtree and about two hours to Palmetto.