Israeli team Orbit #1690 competing in NY regionals

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

The Chesapeake Regional is not in New York state. Chesapeake takes place in College Park, Maryland. It's roughly a 4.5-5 hour drive between Long Island and College Park. Geographically, they're roughly the length of Israel apart. If you're staying the whole week I'm sure that's not a significant issue. However, if you refer to College Park as being in the "New York state area," I'm sure you'll get plenty of confused looks. It's actually a suburb of Washington DC.

This is what I came here to say as well.

The closest regional is New York City - but you won't get the back-to-back you're looking for.

You could also go to the NY Tech Valley Regional, which is the week before Long Island. Those are about a 3.5 hour drive apart - which, as Sean mentioned shouldn't be an issue if you're going to be there for the whole week.

[Tomker]

Originally Posted by Libby K

This is what I came here to say as well.

The closest regional is New York City - but you won't get the back-to-back you're looking for.

You could also go to the NY Tech Valley Regional, which is the week before Long Island. Those are about a 3.5 hour drive apart - which, as Sean mentioned shouldn't be an issue if you're going to be there for the whole week.

If it was possible without the risk of missing the Israeli regional that's what we would have done, but the Israeli regional date isn't really set yet, it will take place sometime between the 2nd-19th of March so we can't fly to any regional before the 21st or so...

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Tomker

If it was possible without the risk of missing the Israeli regional that's what we would have done, but the Israeli regional date isn't really set yet, it will take place sometime between the 2nd-19th of March so we can't fly to any regional before the 21st or so...

FIRST site says 9th-12th of March for Israel. I assume that means they've locked it down...

[Anteprefix]

Originally Posted by EricH

FIRST site says 9th-12th of March for Israel. I assume that means they've locked it down...

No, the site info says that the date is tentative an subject to change.
http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedFiles...A_SiteInfo.pdf

[shhrz]

Originally Posted by EricH

FIRST site says 9th-12th of March for Israel. I assume that means they've locked it down...

It is indeed tentative...

Reason for this is that the Israeli Regional is played @ the home of Maccabi Tel Aviv (where now Cavaliers coach Blatt was HC last year, btw ), Nokia Arena.

This is also part of the reason Israel does its regional mid-week (Maccabi Euroleague games are Thursdays, and Saturday is a day where religious folks cannot attend - hence the Mon-Wed scheduling).

This year there seems to be some issue with the scheduling of Maccabi Tel Aviv home games. So until they resolve THAT issue, it is indeed tentatively set for the above date.

[Wetzel]

How many people are you planning to travel with?

[Tomker]

Originally Posted by Wetzel

How many people are you planning to travel with?

We have proximately 30 students on the team, and along with about 5-6 mentors/parents we'll be about 35 people.

We are hoping to raise enough money to get everyone to go, and are mainly focused on that in this point of the pre-season.