Teams attending three regionals...

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by Kyle45

My team will only go to 2 regionals plus nationals. Basically the reason, as I know, is that you need to have a real robust robot to stand up to 4 competitions before you can really fix anything "big" on it. Maybe next year though. Karthik I'll bring the Waterloo idea up to Baker next time around. I want to go to Canada, what else is there to do around the Toronto area. Just PM me with that stuff. Thanks!

-Kyle

Well... Kyle makes things seem like they are all up to me. That is surely not the case. The regionals we attend as a team is always based on a team decision. We weigh our options. Many reasons depend on school issues, timing, location, and student availablity to be excused from classes. The reason why we won't do three regionals this year has nothing to do with robot durability.

We did 3 regionals in 2003, and it was tough on the team. Students missed much school, and we decided that it was too taxing on everyone. Our robot benefitted fromt the process, as we got more time to improve it.

If the timing was "just right", then we might do 3 regionals in future years, but again, it would be a team decision... not just my opinion.

I really do with that we could attend the Waterloo Regional this coming year. We are jealous of other teams who get to attend.

Andy B.