FIRST Chesapeake Districts

[JesseK]

Yea ... we host a week 1 and then attending a week 2 & 3. Not ideal from a robot performance perspective, but it helps in that it sets expectations about robot design and functionality at the different milestones. Also gives us room to breathe before District Champs.

We're pretty excited to host the first VA district. Many of the region's best teams will be there, so it'll be great to watch with a front-row seat. My team is 30-35 minutes from my house, so no complaining about a 15 minute drive from the hotel

Turns out that Doswell is during the tail end of the school's Spring Break, so limited access to the shop & robot in the week prior to the event would have been a killer. We did a team meeting about which 2nd event to attend, and the only absolute sway for a week 4 event came from the programmers (of course it would ).

Originally Posted by notmattlythgoe

The problem from having have a lot of teams from both HR and SWVA feeding into that one central event along with all of the Richmond teams that use it as their home event. Putting a second event between Richmond and HR or Richmond and SWVA could be a solution in the future. I have a feeling we'll have an 8th event next year with as close as we are pushing the limits this year.

It'll be interesting to see how Kettering's back-to-back events work out. Since our districts are in high schools (afaik) I don't know if the same thing is plausible.