[BB] The List & A New Region 9-23-11

[dodar]

Wow, I'm not trying to be rude over placement of regionals but having the South Florida Regional week 5 kind of screws up picking regionals for most Florida teams. Having Orlando week 2 then skip 3 and 4, then South Florida week 5 negates us being able to possibly going to a 3rd regional because our schools wouldnt let us do back-to-back week regionals.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by dodar

Wow, I'm not trying to be rude over placement of regionals but having the South Florida Regional week 5 kind of screws up picking regionals for most Florida teams. Having Orlando week 2 then skip 3 and 4, then South Florida week 5 negates us being able to possibly going to a 3rd regional because our schools wouldnt let us do back-to-back week regionals.

If you think that's bad, the MAR schedule almost locks teams into certain events.

But whatever, at least they published a list.

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

If you think that's bad, the MAR schedule almost locks teams into certain events.

But whatever, at least they published a list.

Weeks 1 and 2 for the two PA events is what I find confusing.


EDIT: Also, upon further reading, it seems as if they decided on "Qualifying Event" for the tiered competition structure name, as well as referring to the championships as, "XXXXXX FRC Region Championship". I like that change.

[akoscielski3]

FLR, GTR east, and Pittsburgh in one week :O these are the regionals we were considering. Why are they all on the same week when they are sooo close to eachother??

EDIT: Is this "Kettering University MI FRC Qualifying Event, Flint, MI" regional a Michigan championship qualifying regional, and teams outside of Michigan (like from Windsor Ontario) can not attend

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by akoscielski3

EDIT: Is this "Kettering University MI FRC Qualifying Event, Flint, MI" regional a Michigan championship qualifying regional, and teams outside of Michigan (like from Windsor Ontario) can not attend

Yes. They're called qualifying events now.

[Bjenks548]

Originally Posted by akoscielski3

FLR, GTR east, and Pittsburgh in one week :O these are the regionals we were considering. Why are they all on the same week when they are sooo close to eachother??

EDIT: Is this "Kettering University MI FRC Qualifying Event, Flint, MI" regional a Michigan championship qualifying regional, and teams outside of Michigan (like from Windsor Ontario) can not attend

That's right, Kettering has been closed to the outsiders since 2009, with the exception of off season events.

Also that potential Northville Michigan Qualifying event is still in the very very early stages of developments.

[akoscielski3]

Originally Posted by Bjenks548

That's right, Kettering has been closed to the outsiders since 2009, with the exception of off season events.

Also that potential Northville Michigan Qualifying event is still in the very very early stages of developments.

Wow that kinda sucks. I could literally walk down my street, jump into the Detroit river, swim across the river (not legally) to the states for the Detroit Qualifying event
Now my team has to travel a minimum of 3.25 hours to our closest regional. YAY! oh well its worth every hour/day of travel!

[1986titans]

Originally Posted by akoscielski3

Wow that kinda sucks. I could literally walk down my street, jump into the Detroit river, swim across the river (not legally) to the states for the Detroit Qualifying event
Now my team has to travel a minimum of 3.25 hours to our closest regional. YAY! oh well its worth every hour/day of travel!

I don't get this complaint. I looked up 772, and it doesn't appear they ever went to an event in Michigan even in the 7 years before Michigan went to the District structure.

[Brandon Holley]

First shoutout to the Mount Olive MAR qualifying event. I'm stoked to be able to watch an official qualifying event at the place I went to high school!

Scheduling is definitely becoming more of a challenge as more events are added, which kind of seems backwards to me?

-Brando

[akoscielski3]

Originally Posted by 1986titans

I don't get this complaint. I looked up 772, and it doesn't appear they ever went to an event in Michigan even in the 7 years before Michigan went to the District structure.

We were considering going to Detroit, or Flint this year. I know we haven't in the past but we could keep costs way down if we went to one of them. When we were a younger team I believe we didn't have as good of sponsorship and only went to Toronto, and a few others. I don't know why they didn't pick Michigan, i wasn't a member of the team until the 2010 season, but i helped when i was in grade school

Silicon Valley is always our home regional, so we'll be attending that for sure. Glad to see SVR and SAC aren't the same weeks as predicted. The central valley regional sounds nice, too. Maybe team 256 will go there as well this year. Either that or SAC, but Madera sounds more fun. PLUS, new regional=new teams=not as much powerhouses (yet) as SVR and SAC, so it should be a lot easier.

Anyone else planning on the Central Valley Regional?

[Chris is me]

Eh, guess we're going to the same two events again.

[Cory]

I spent like 20 minutes taking this survey about awards, just so I could tell FIRST how I really feel about the safety award...and then it didn't even ask about it.

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by Cory

I spent like 20 minutes taking this survey about awards, just so I could tell FIRST how I really feel about the safety award...and then it didn't even ask about it.

You weren't the only person with nice things to say about the Safety Award. Hehehe.

On topic though, I wonder how many MAR teams will go to NYC in week three...

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by stevend1994

EDIT: Also, upon further reading, it seems as if they decided on "Qualifying Event" for the tiered competition structure name, as well as referring to the championships as, "XXXXXX FRC Region Championship". I like that change.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...61&postcount=8

I was pretty close.