What event is your team registering for first?

[dirtbikerxz]

Bayou Regional (It's the local regional).

We aren't certain on our second regional yet. We generally go to lonestar, but this year bayou and lonestar are back to back weeks, and we def don't want to do that. The school would not be happy, and also we just want time to build/improve something we might have found a flaw in at our first regional.

[SenorZ]

Originally Posted by EricH

TBD... but L.A. area teams know that if you want to go to the L.A. Regional, you need to be online and registering at 12:00:01 PM in order to get in.

9:00:01 AM Pacific time, right?

99% going Orange Country Regional
1% chance of Los Angeles

[Daler99]

We're planning on registering for WPI first because we loved the venue and quality of the event last season.

[Jay O'Donnell]

Originally Posted by Daler99

We're planning on registering for WPI first because we loved the venue and quality of the event last season.

I have a feeling you'll have no problem getting in due to the fact that it's a Thursday-Friday event. It's unfortunate that the best 4 venues in NE aren't having events this year and one of the best left is on a weird time frame.

[Chris is me]

228's doing Waterbury first.

[Daler99]

Originally Posted by Jay O'Donnell

I have a feeling you'll have no problem getting in due to the fact that it's a Thursday-Friday event. It's unfortunate that the best 4 venues in NE aren't having events this year and one of the best left is on a weird time frame.

Yeah, it is unfortunate. The time frame for WPI is weird, but we are willing to work with it. Just out of curiosity, what do you consider the best 4 venues in NE?

[Jay O'Donnell]

Originally Posted by Daler99

Yeah, it is unfortunate. The time frame for WPI is weird, but we are willing to work with it. Just out of curiosity, what do you consider the best 4 venues in NE?

Agganis Arena (BU)
Matthews Arena (Northeastern)
XL Center (Hartford)
Verizon Wireless Arena (Manchester NH)

Verizon hasn't hosted an event since 2013, and now both Boston venues are being replaced by revere high school.

Ultimately my only worry from the change over to districts 3 years ago is starting to happen, which is loss of quality venues. The last few years proved me wrong, but it's a pretty bad group of venues for 2017.

[Daler99]

Originally Posted by Jay O'Donnell

Agganis Arena (BU)
Matthews Arena (Northeastern)
XL Center (Hartford)
Verizon Wireless Arena (Manchester NH)

Verizon hasn't hosted an event since 2013, and now both Boston venues are being replaced by revere high school.

Ultimately my only worry from the change over to districts 3 years ago is starting to happen, which is loss of quality venues. The last few years proved me wrong, but it's a pretty bad group of venues for 2017.

Those venues are really good. It's kind of a shame that both Boston venues are going to Revere High School, but Revere High School is still a fine venue. Do you know what events 1058 plans to attend? 5813 is planning to go to WPI and SNH.

[Jay O'Donnell]

Originally Posted by Daler99

Those venues are really good. It's kind of a shame that both Boston venues are going to Revere High School, but Revere High School is still a fine venue. Do you know what events 1058 plans to attend? 5813 is planning to go to WPI and SNH.

You would have to ask one of their current members on that one.

[jayred1127]

New York City Regional. And then after we are looking at Hudson valley or SBLI

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Jay O'Donnell

Agganis Arena (BU)
Matthews Arena (Northeastern)
XL Center (Hartford)
Verizon Wireless Arena (Manchester NH)

Verizon hasn't hosted an event since 2013, and now both Boston venues are being replaced by revere high school.

Ultimately my only worry from the change over to districts 3 years ago is starting to happen, which is loss of quality venues. The last few years proved me wrong, but it's a pretty bad group of venues for 2017.

Having been involved with several events at BU and NEU as well as Revere... for a district I think the Revere High School is a better venue. The free parking lowers team costs and he lower venue cost lowers event costs letting them focus on other things. Now, if Revere was hosting the DCMP I'd have more complaints, but I think locations like BU, Verizon Wireless, and XL Center are simply too large to host districts and should instead be used for DCMP. [1] About the only real downside Revere has over the BU/NEU venues is that the food options are slightly more limited in that teams can't just walk across the street and find a half dozen places to eat.


EDIT: In the interest of not dragging this thread off topic, please feel free to tell me I'm an idiot via PM.


[1] Matthews is the oddball here, while I think it might actually be the same size (for our purposes) as BU it doesn't feel nearly as big. I like Matthews and think it's an awesome and historic venue but it doesn't feel as awe inspiring as the others.

[Koko Ed]

FLR. We always go to FLR.

[Hitchhiker 42]

We're probably doing Waterbury and Hartford in NE again - always great events! Not sure which one we'll register first for though, but probably Hartford.

[Abdul Compton]

Does anyone know where I can find the accurate listings of the current regionals? The Blue Alliance isn't as updated as I think it should be, it does not mention alot of the regionals that have been confirmed here. The regionals in California in particular. Thanks.

[Brian Maher]

Originally Posted by Abdul Compton

Does anyone know where I can find the accurate listings of the current regionals? The Blue Alliance isn't as updated as I think it should be, it does not mention alot of the regionals that have been confirmed here. The regionals in California in particular. Thanks.

https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index....=FRC&year=2017