[FRC Blog] Frank Answers Fridays: June 13, 2014

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by Link07

Pretty thankful that MAR has mitigated this problem greatly by hosting no Week 6 district. Even with the planned addition of a new district event next year, we tend to stay away from Easter weekend (Week 6) anyway. We saw a lower number of DCMP declines this year as compared to 2013, partially for this reason.

I think the move to no Week 6 this year was a great idea on MAR's part. (1923 got an invite on the load-in-day of MARCMP in 2013, this year we had a week+ to plan. Definitely way better.)

However, that doesn't help the second problem of this schedule - Week 7 qualifications to CMP, which arguably is way harder to plan. I like some of the ideas I've seen above about the district reserving plane seats, hotel blocks, etc for teams and then waiting to offer them to teams that need them. It'd be a great help to take something off the plate of teams that are already scrambling.