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Re: [FTC]: FTC Super-Regionals

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Originally Posted by Carol A View Post
Why did they put the North Super-Regional the same weekend as Midwest FRC regional? We are a community based FRC team but are starting 3 FTC teams in 3 high schools this year. If one of the FTC teams goes to Super-Regional our Mentors, Students, & Volunteers would be split. I guess we will have to go to Central IL (if it is not Week 6) & Wisc. Regionals.
I actually think they chose the date wisely. There are only five possible weekends to hold the super regional, bracketed by Indiana State FTC championship (the last state champs, I believe), and Worlds. You can't have the super regional before all of the state championship events, and you really don't want to have the super regional the week right after that since that would only be a five day gap between competitions. So really, you're looking at FRC week 4, 5, 6, 7, or the week before Champs. Week before champs is bad since that would be only a 3 day gap between trips.

So that leaves week 5, 6, and 7. Week 5 has at least three FRC regionals, so that's the worst option if you only care about FRC vs FTC conflicts. Between week 6 and 7 with one event each in the Midwest, I could go either way. Conflicting with MSC and being one week later isn't a great option, in my opinion.

March 15: FRC Week 3, plus Indiana State FTC Champs
March 22: 5 days after Indiana FTC, plus FRC Week 4, Wisconsin + Kansas City + Boilermaker + Buckeye
March 29: FRC Week 5, Minneapolis 10K/North Star + Queen City
April 5: Week 6, Midwest
April 12: Week 7, Michigan State Champs
April 19: 4 days until World Championship

The April 5th weekend gives teams two full weeks between super regional and Worlds, which sounds about right.

I do empathize with your teams, though. We also have FTC + FRC, and it creates some tricky calendar choices.
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