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Re: [FRC Blog] 2015 Events are Being Posted!
Yuck.
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Additionally, when I went through the exercise of giving the events custom names last year, I never could come up with enough good names. The best one was still North Dumpling, IMO. Last edited by Jessica Boucher : 02-09-2014 at 21:12. |
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The area where the swimming pool used to be is now a gymnasium owned by the IU Kokomo Cougars. I'm pretty sure 40 10'x10' pits can fit in there, but without much room left over for inspection and spare parts and pit administration. We'll find a place for everything.
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YES!!! WPI puts on some of the best robotics event in the country very very very very happy to see the district championship get moved to there, Also ecstatic to see an event in Waterbury week one that is like our home town event now, and the team loves week one event, best calendar NEFIRST could have possibly come up with
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I'm happy to see the Week 6 break and the continued Sat-Sun format for a large number of Districts, I am disappointed however to see that some of the Districts were lost from last year. Only having two Districts in CT seems unbalanced to me, even with the additional district overall. 2015 District Allocation CT - 2 MA - 4 + Championships RI - 1 NH - 2 VT - 0 ME - 1 2014 District Allocation CT - 3 MA - 2 + Championships RI - 1 NH - 2 VT - 0 ME - 1 Number of Team in 2014 CT - 52 MA - 86 RI - 8 NH - 39 VT - 3 ME - 19 Last edited by jwfoss : 03-09-2014 at 07:08. |
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jwfoss-If it makes you feel any better, the Springfield event is only about 4 miles from the CT border.
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I think the reasoning behind putting more events in MA aside from it having more teams is that most of the MA events are still close enough to border states it is still easy for teams to commute into the state on a daily basis. The Reading event is 30-45 minutes for teams in the SNH area. Similarly the new Springfield event (which technically the place of WPI) will be about 30 minutes for teams on the northern side of Hartford. Not a perfect solution but hopefully CT teams don't have to travel too far. |
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207 teams in NEFIRST in 2014 CT 25% 3 Events MA 42% 4 Events RI 4% 0 Events NH 19% 2 Events VT 1% 0 Events ME 9% 1 Event Would be the logical distribution. When I get home I'll see if I can compute average commute distances to the nearest two districts. It's possible that, like most things in NE, state lines are kinda silly distinctions. Edit: Commute distances aren't happening tonight. Data is loaded, I'm pretty sure of the query I need to run but I'm still wrapping my head around postgis. Last edited by Andrew Schreiber : 03-09-2014 at 22:21. |
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As I said, I'm going to do some digging on whether this distribution is actually better later (I hope). |
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![]() Last edited by Roger : 03-09-2014 at 11:55. Reason: Missed the correct time by one minute! |
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The state travel rule is a factor, however for New England schools and FRC teams this is not a new requirement. The states here are small, its difficult to drive an hour in any direction in certain parts of New England without crossing a border. I think many teams and schools understand this constraint and know how to deal with it. -Brando |
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Yes, however I thought that Autodesk paid for (and therefore got the naming rights) most of the venue cost? Portland was actually one of the cheaper venues available outside of a academic location.
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Oh Lord. Michigan has been doing districts for six years. Did not realize it's been that long.
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Let's also not forget that last year CT teams were some of the only teams able to compete at two-three competitions in their own state. Both New Hampshire events were week 1 and week 2 meaning all but two teams traveled out of state to compete or be forced to compete back to back in the beginning of the season when robots/teams usually aren't ready. Massachusetts was doable in weeks 3 and 5 but demand filled both of those events fast. For those of us who are competing in the southern half of the district (CT, MA, RI, and SNH) keep in mind that there are plenty of teams in Vermont, Nothern New Hampshire, and Maine who are forced to travel hours to just get to one event. |
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