Leaving The Event - Departure Schedules For You And/Or Your Team(s)

[JaneYoung]

Anyone impacted with more financial costs to the team, worry over missing flights, or concerns of that nature?

Jane

[GreyingJay]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

Anyone impacted with more financial costs to the team, worry over missing flights, or concerns of that nature?

Our plan to leave Monday morning (taking $200-ish flights) versus leaving on Sunday (which would have meant ($1000+ flights) had to balance cost versus the needs for students to not miss too much school.

The Monday morning flight also necessitated a 4:30am wake-up call. Trying to get a bunch of teenage boys moving at that hour is a... challenge.

In the end, most of us flew, but a small crew decided to drive home starting on Saturday night.

[BethMo]

At my very first Championship (2004 I think?) I had booked a flight back Saturday night, and had to miss some of the last matches when things ran late. Since then, I've always scheduled to stay Saturday night, and advised everyone to expect super-long delays. A few years I've been pleasantly surprised when things run on time, but that's unfortunately not the norm.

[AJCaliciuri]

Our teams was more concerned about getting our students back home in time for School on Monday morning.

We drove down from Canada via a Coach Bus, so it was an 18hr drive back up from St. Louis. We also had to work around the Bus Driver's regulaions on how long he could drive as well as picking up a new driver along the way.

We left around 8:30-9PM or so, so we could grab dinner as a team and get back home for around 6PM, giving our students the chance to get a full night's sleep and get over their FIRST Championship hangover.