Which Regionals/Districts?

[Travis Hoffman]

The crystal ball is becoming less cloudy, but still much to discuss and decide.

One scenario heavily discussed today was:

Week 2: New York City

Week 4: Queen City

Week 6: Crossroads

with Finger Lakes as a possible alternate to New York if the costs of staying in the area are too high. Where can we stay in Manhattan for less than $100 a night? Haha.

[Rangel]

With the latest dates released we are going to try and make it to:
Week 4: Phoenix Regional
and hopefully:
Week 6: Silicon Valley Regional

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

with Finger Lakes as a possible alternate to New York if the costs of staying in the area are too high. Where can we stay in Manhattan for less than $100 a night? Haha.

Newark.

[Jimmy Nichols]

We meet tonight to dicsuss our plans.

[jwfoss]

2168 has discussed two basic options at this time; either GSR and CT, or WPI and CT. We are looking to save some money and stay close to home this year. Personally I will do some volunteering again at Boston, and maybe another NE Regional.

With the district model being discussed heavily in New England, I strongly encourage teams from outside the area to make the trip up here this year if they have never had the chance.

[Brandon Holley]

Originally Posted by jwfoss

With the district model being discussed heavily in New England, I strongly encourage teams from outside the area to make the trip up here this year if they have never had the chance.

I will echo this sentiment.


For the NUTRONs, we're looking at this schedule:

Week 2: San Diego or Oralndo

Week 4: Boston

Week 6: Pine Tree


-Brando

[bearbot]

Ursa Major rough draft of events
DC: week 5
Chesapeake: week 7
*This is tentive since cheaspeake is the last regional on schedule possible go to and earlier regional

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Newark.

Although I know you are kidding, getting from the NJ side into the NYC regional is not incredibly difficult - I know it's hard for a larger group but the NJ Transit's Northeast Corridor runs from Trenton > Princeton Junction > New Brunswick > Newark > NYC... If you could find a hotel along the NECorridor line, you could probably stay somewhere for cheap and get some train passes. This also applies to staying somewhere outside of Manhattan and using the Subway (maybe- I'm not as familiar with that system)

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Libby K

Although I know you are kidding, getting from the NJ side into the NYC regional is not incredibly difficult - I know it's hard for a larger group but the NJ Transit's Northeast Corridor runs from Trenton > Princeton Junction > New Brunswick > Newark > NYC... If you could find a hotel along the NECorridor line, you could probably stay somewhere for cheap and get some train passes. This also applies to staying somewhere outside of Manhattan and using the Subway (maybe- I'm not as familiar with that system)

Actually I wasn't kidding. The one time I went to NYC I stayed outside the Newark Airport (I saw a constant steady stream of planes landing til I fell asleep) and I took the train in (I was shocked how fast trains that didn't stop at the platform zoomed past the platform AT THE PLATFORM). If you're gonna go to NYC unless you got some super crazy deal I would suggest going that route.

[Ekcrbe]

Originally Posted by Ekcrbe

Looks like Waterford and Grand Blanc for us, and probably entering the lottery for Troy. I'm surprised Northville has been moved, but it was a little far away without a hotel (some team members didn't get back until 1AM-ish Saturday morning, and then had to turn around and come back).

Okay maybe not. There is a different proposal on the table among the mentors I just heard of, so we'll see how it turns out.

[sanddrag]

Let me ask one question. With bag and tag now, is there any real problem in doing two regionals in consecutive weeks? I'm thinking not. Opinions?

[42!]

We're thinking of the following schedule.
Week 1 Madera
Week 4 Sacramento
Week 6 Canada West Regional
Anyone have Any predictions on how fast these will be filling up this year?

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Let me ask one question. With bag and tag now, is there any real problem in doing two regionals in consecutive weeks? I'm thinking not. Opinions?

Missing school days two weeks in a row is a problem for most students. It's been labeled a show-stopping problem by the teachers on our team.

[MattC9]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Let me ask one question. With bag and tag now, is there any real problem in doing two regionals in consecutive weeks? I'm thinking not. Opinions?

We kiddos get burned out, 2 regigonals is enough already. Plus our teachers wouldn't like that...

[rachelholladay]

So the Bayou Regional is our home and this year is week 4. Our spring break happens to fall on week 5. While it would nice to go to a regional on spring break (so us kids wouldnt miss school) no one really wants to go back-to-back regionals. That knocks out Smokey Mt and Alamo, leading us to favor Lone Star.