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Re: Moving Championships back

I'm... neutral on the idea.

You don't have to dodge AP testing, which is a good thing... except that you lose any ability for the students who are doing AP tests to do robot work for a couple weeks. (I'd bank on that being the case, with testing being so important to academics these days. Shame that education isn't as important to academics. Whether it's the school or the parents clamping down, you'll lose those students.)

On the other hand, for anybody who's not doing AP (and is doing CMP), you add another several weeks to an already long season. 14 weeks from Kickoff to the Week 7 events isn't exactly short! There's ways to mitigate that, admittedly, but that's still something to factor in.

I can see the pro of having more time to plan travel; that's always a plus. (And you can do fundraising at that time, too, even better.)

But then you get to the whole "end of school year" if you run it too late. Now, out here, school year ends in the early June timeframe, give or take a couple weeks (depending on start date); if you snuck CMP in early in May you've got a shot but anything later is going to be trouble. For the college mentors, they might be getting out earlier still, so that introduces some interesting complications.


Could it be done? Sure. Not for another 5 years, though. Venue contracts are signed, don't want to undo that. Is it a good idea? Eh, maybe they'll come up with something totally different by then, like having Kickoff in December.
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