FIRST Chesapeake Districts

[zcohen]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

I see 1111 isn't registered to compete in their host event, either. I'm curious if CHP advised these teams to stay away form their own events, or each of these teams decided to be cautious on their own.

We discussed attending our own event, but decided against it. While we're not running the event, the district is doing that, I wanted to make sure our students were available for volunteers if need be. Additionally 1111 will be taking care of concessions and we're hopefully going to be running our shop as a machine shop, so I didnt want to pull students away from those roles in order to compete. Also, while we never would exploit it, and I dont think any other team would either, I dont like even the idea of a perceived home team advantage, so we made the decision to not compete between that possible but unlikely perception and because I wanted my students and parents to be available as volunteers.