2005 Regionals

[Bharat Nain]

Originally Posted by Stu Bloom

me thinks you need a calendar check on those dates ... and on the website. Thurs thru Sat that weekend is the 17th thru 19th.

Those are really the dates I got, although I am assuming they meant March 17-29. I mantain the NJFIRST.ORG domain, so thats how I got this info. if you are wondering.

[Billfred]

Just out of curiosity, do regionals usually shift weeks from one season to the next?

If not, then it's pretty safe to put Palmetto in Week 5.

[SpaceOsc]

Originally Posted by Billfred

Just out of curiosity, do regionals usually shift weeks from one season to the next?

If not, then it's pretty safe to put Palmetto in Week 5.

ummm then dont shift to much... some do but most of the time they at lease stay in the same general order as a whole

[Tyler 178]

Originally Posted by SpaceOsc

ummm then dont shift to much... some do but most of the time they at lease stay in the same general order as a whole

In 2003, the Pacific Northwest Regional (In Seattle, WA) was in the 2nd week of regionals.

In 2004, the Pacific Northwest Regional moved to Portland, OR, and was the 1st week of regionals. (It moved to Oregon, because there were more Oregon teams then Washington teams in 2003 and it didn't make a whole lot of sense making all of them drive up to Seattle. But in 2004, I think there were about the same number, because we started a whole bunch of new teams in WA

[Steve W]

Dates change depending on 2 things. First is the arena availability and second is the field availability. FIRST has only so many fields and they must be shipped around. Because of this they try to balance out the number of regionals on any given weekend. There are also contracts for the venues. These contracts can be for one or multiple years.

I believe that FIRST announces the dates in September but I could be wrong. All of the ducks must be in order before they will announce.