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Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard
According to Google Maps, it takes about 5 hours to drive from the top of Long Island to Albany. That would be the longest drive any team would have to take to get to a centrally located state championship.
Montauk to Albany: 5 Hours
Manhattan to Albany: 3 Hours
Rochester to Albany: 3 Hours
Buffalo to Albany: 4 Hours, 30 Minutes
This doesn't seem that bad, and with some help from sponsors and other teams, I'm sure most teams that qualify for NYCMP that want to attend NYCMP would be able to. As the NYFIRST community, we could figure out a solution to that problem.
There are trains from NYC to Albany. There's even one that ends about a mile from the Times Union Center (which would be a likely venue if we were able to secure it for this time of year).
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A train from nyc to Albany costs $42 each way each day. That's 84 dollars per person not to mention that its a 2 and a half hour ride(that's 5 hours of train time per day) it's a logistical nightmare. A nyc event at the javits center (without ftc fll and jr fll you could fit multiple fields and hundreds of teams in there) would make more Sense for the masses but isn't the greatest for the upstate teams even if they are the technical minority.
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