Competitions and Holidays

[Manoel]

Originally Posted by Levin571

I decided to start this thread to point out some of the dates that FIRST chose for this years regional and National event.
These 6 competitions fall on Easter weekend, and some of the teams that go to these regionals from far away would return back home on Sunday which is already easter.

That happened before, in 2002, and it wasn't really a big of a deal. As far as I know, living in the country with the largest Catholic population in the world, the religion doesn't require you to go through periods without having meals, or punishing yourself for sins and things like that. You can't have meat on Holy Friday (is it the right term in English?), however, and competition venues don't usually offer fish. Just stick with nachos

Originally Posted by Levin571

This falls on the first two days of the Jewish holiday of Passover. The first two days are the most important where jews are supposed to go to synagogue and have a seder at night which is essentially a meal involving a lot of different religious aspects. Also during this time one cannot eat food with yeast in it like any bread products, and i wouldn't assume the Georgia Dome to have all the proper kinds of food that we can eat.
I'de like to see how other people/teams are dealing to this predicament, and to possibly find out who i can write a letter to from FIRST about this.

Now that seems to be more of a problem, as Judaism is a bit more strict with religious holidays. As others said in this post, FIRST will not change any events dates, but, considering the large number of people that will be affected by that date, you should make FIRST aware of this situation (and note they may already be), perhaps by arranging with the venue to have special food, or maybe even find a nearby synagogue to contemplate the needs of everybody involved.
Have your team officially contact FIRST, preferably with the support of other teams, and tell them about your situation.

PS: If I sounded offensive towards any religion, please forgive me, it is definitely not my intention.