2015 Minnesota State Championship

[ehochstein]

Originally Posted by northstardon

On a related note, would the number of missed school days be different if/when Minnesota adopts the district model? Looks like the Michigan FRC State Championship is a Wed-Saturday event.

Potentially, some districts run Saturday-Sunday events and some run Friday-Saturday events.

District Championships are run exactly like a Regional is run. Load-in Wednesday night and everything else takes place Thursday through Saturday.

[northstardon]

Originally Posted by ehochstein

Potentially, some districts run Saturday-Sunday events and some run Friday-Saturday events.

District Championships are run exactly like a Regional is run. Load-in Wednesday night and everything else takes place Thursday through Saturday.

According to this event schedule, Michigan's championships had the opening ceremony and 7 hours of qualification matches on Thursday. Qualification matches for regionals like Duluth or Mpls don't start until Friday morning, right? That gives many teams the option of sending a skeleton crew Wed after school or early Thurs (missing 2 days of school), and sending the rest a day later, so that they only miss one day.

[ehochstein]

Originally Posted by northstardon

According to this event schedule, Michigan's championships had the opening ceremony and 7 hours of qualification matches on Thursday. Qualification matches for regionals like Duluth or Mpls don't start until Friday morning, right? That gives many teams the option of sending a skeleton crew Wed after school or early Thurs (missing 2 days of school), and sending the rest a day later, so that they only miss one day.

You are correct, but that skeleton crew will still miss more school. Additionally, if you're not part of a skeleton crew, you'll still miss two days of school by attending two Regionals, which is the same amount as the Michigan district championship.

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by northstardon

According to this event schedule, Michigan's championships had the opening ceremony and 7 hours of qualification matches on Thursday. Qualification matches for regionals like Duluth or Mpls don't start until Friday morning, right? That gives many teams the option of sending a skeleton crew Wed after school or early Thurs (missing 2 days of school), and sending the rest a day later, so that they only miss one day.

That's the beauty of the system in that you can have several events within a district all with different schedules to help meet your teams needs.

In 2014 we attended a Thurs/Fri district event (2 days), Fri/Sat district event (1 day), the District Championship Thurs/Fri/Sat (2 days), and the World Championship Tues/Wed/Thurs/Fri/Sat (3.5 days since the team left part way through Tuesday).

In total it was 8.5 days out of school. Only at one of our first events of the year were we advised some of the students needed to stay back on school days.

This year we looked for more of the Saturday and Sunday events so we could keep the kids in school longer and went to two events that were Saturday & Sunday and repeated our 2014 run of DCMP & WCMP but with worlds the team left Monday afternoon so it worked out to 6 missed days of school.

Keep in mind though depending on how far you need to travel you may need to have your load in crew leave early to get to the event when doors open. I believe there are some teams up in Maine with 3+ hour rides to get to some district events so they leave mid day.

Overall for the number of matches you play in addition to the decreased cost per play the travel time doesn't jump up as bad if you plan your events to use no or only 1 school day for the event.