2005 Regionals

[SpaceOsc]

Originally Posted by SuperDave

interesting that you say you would win the lv regional, if there is one ofcourse... well if homefield advantage means anything at a FIRST regional, then i think my team has a pretty good chance. ALSO, did you know your team number is Las Vegas's area code? so WHEN IS FIRST GOING TO ANNOUNCE THE OFFICIAL REGIONALS ALREADY??

i didnt know that , interesting facts

lol and about homefield... has the chessy poofs , H.Y.P.E.R and team 60 and the gila Monsters taught u Anything?

When will a team from La be the top seed and top Alliance captain?

[suneel112]

Originally posted by Collin Fultz
i heard the championships were moving to Indy



wait...wrong thread...sorry

anyways...the Purdue University Regional should be fantastic. Think: IRI quality teams at an official regional

I guess we just have to hope that hammond and the thunderbots dont' create the SuperAlliance again and run the field.

Oh Yeah!!! [Getting pumped up 8 months in advance]

[Ashley Weed]

Originally Posted by Karthik

Okay, for organizational purposes, here's the very unofficial list according to this thread.

Week 1: Rochester
Week 2:
Week 3: Purdue, New Jersey
Week 4: Waterloo, Philadelphia, Southern California
Week 5: Greater Toronto, Western Michigan

.... and wouldn't ya'll know the week I'm waiting on is that one with the big blank next too it!

[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.

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by Karthik

Okay, for organizational purposes, here's the very unofficial list according to this thread.

Here's an updated version reflecting this announcement http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=29832.

Please remember that this list is based rumours and speculation. The regional dates are only official when FIRST publishes them.

Week 1: Rochester
Week 2: Florida
Week 3: Purdue, New Jersey, Long Island
Week 4: Waterloo, Philadelphia, Southern California
Week 5: Greater Toronto, Western Michigan

[Corey Balint]

Is it just me-or is it kind of pointless to hold 2 regionals within 50 miles of each other on the same weekend? One or the other is gonna go wayy down in attendence.

[Stephen Kowski]

from what i have heard the Florida Regional will be March 10-12

[Elyse Holguin]

Originally Posted by Joshua May

First 69, now 188! Next thing ya know, 71 will come!

man, we broke.


please forgive my poor grammar!

[Jeff Waegelin]

Originally Posted by Corey Balint

Is it just me-or is it kind of pointless to hold 2 regionals within 50 miles of each other on the same weekend? One or the other is gonna go wayy down in attendence.

Not necessarily. If you have an area with enough teams to support 2 regionals worth of teams on the same weekend, then both could be packed. Plus, when you have regionals that are "wayy down in attendance" from local teams, you usually end up with teams traveling from farther away to attend. It's really not a problem to fill two regionals, like that. Almost every regional is filled to capacity each year, no matter what the circumstances.

[Stephen Kowski]

Originally Posted by Jeff Waegelin

Not necessarily. If you have an area with enough teams to support 2 regionals worth of teams on the same weekend, then both could be packed. Plus, when you have regionals that are "wayy down in attendance" from local teams, you usually end up with teams traveling from farther away to attend. It's really not a problem to fill two regionals, like that. Almost every regional is filled to capacity each year, no matter what the circumstances.

or maybe if there are that many teams in one area there could be a super regional like the canadian regional that way you can accomodate all the teams in the area on ONE weekend.....hmmmm just a thought, I know that certain areas are thinking about it...

[Corey Balint]

Thats probably it, because i remembered hearing talks of NJ possibly becoming a Super Regional. So i guess to take away from that they made LI the same time.

Of course they will both be packed still, but some teams expected at NJ, might go to LI now.

And i am pretty sure there wont be any teams traveling to the NJ regional, because the new Midwest regional is happening then, aswell as SOcal happening the weekend after, i doubt any teams do both coasts at once. And Florida is the week before too, so i dont expect them to travel up.