2016 regional dates?

[Chief Hedgehog]

Originally Posted by jajabinx124

Any reasons you want Duluth to stay week 1 and Minneapolis to go back to week 5? I'm just curious on why you think that would be nice.

For FRC 4607 the dates work out better. This will be the first time that we will compete in Duluth and I want a quick turnaround for my team after the build season is finished.

For those of you that were unaware of our debacle at Northstar in 2015 with connecting to the FMS, I want to find out early if we will have problems. This robot was our most complete in terms of autonomous, field play, and total team prep. Our practice robot played flawlessly by week 4 and we felt we were ready to competes with the best (2826 and 3130) - I am not saying we would be at their level, but we would have been in the mix. We were stacking 3 sets of 4 totes and capping in practice. We were also 7lbs underweight which would have allowed us to use our strafe. I feel having a week 1 Regional will give us great feedback to work with.

As for the week 5 Regional - it falls better in Becker's school calendar. Week 6 would work - but it means much more hurried planning if we make it to Championships.

So I throw it back to you - why not week 1 and 5?