FIRST Championship Housing Available

[MrJohnston]

Originally Posted by Libby K

You're lucky - we haven't heard back from Experient at all...

We tried to follow the 'rules' and not reserve until we were sure we were going.

I foresee a lot of teams who booked before qualifying, and ended up not qualifying, dropping their rooms and creating more availability. Lucky break for the Week 6 & 7 qualifying teams who'll get blocks at great hotels.

Not so much for those who waited to know if they were actually going before putting themselves in.

I called Experient so that I could "hear back" from them.... Follow the "rules"? If there were "rules," why did Experient inform me that I needed to call on January 5 (before anybody had even built a robot - except Ri3D) if I wanted to have rooms for Champs?

I have got to think that there is a better way to do this? Giving teams some sort of "code" to use when they qualify that would be particular to that one team and is required for making reservations might help? Or, don't open up the registration process at all until a much later date - in late March, perhaps? I have got to think that there is a lot of "extra labor" involved in the current system as teams that end up not going, cancel. When rooms become available teams jump from one reservation to a "better one." Etc.

I do know this: Unless the system changes, I'm going to be making my reservation very early next year...