regional socials: likes & dislikes

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1) Should a regional host a social event for the teams on Friday evening or not? Is it good for the teams, do teams want to have a social, etc?

Chesapeake has always improvised. There've been many collective informal "socials" where teams would do things around Annapolis together. My second year (and first year attending regionals), there were three improvised ones---a group went to Medeival Times at Arundel Mills, another went to the Annapolis Mall, while others went to other places. But there should be a social.


2) Should the team social be held at the same venue as the actual matches or not?

Not really. The real "Nap-town" has so much to do beyond what Hollywood portrays it as (note: "Annapolis" was filmed in Philly). If there were a dance (which never seems to be)

3) One thought is to host a social on Friday evening directly after the pits shut down and then end no later than 9pm.....like it or not?

I like the Friday idea, but it has to be longer! We've got to do it late into the night yo! Multiple events until 1-2:00 AM! After all, the more social time the better the connection--at least that's always how I felt about it. Who knows, you may go to college with them some day (as I found out now with a couple 007 members in my dorm). If it were Saturday, we could also do that, but I remember from a dinner that a number of teams started heading back like around 8:00 or 9:00 PM.

4) What sort of food would you expect at a team social (free, paid-for, styles, etc?)

I'd prefer to pay for my food because the food they give you at regionals (box-lunches) sucks: especially when the cafe is right there.

But as for food choices: Burgers, Dogs of varieties (all-beef for meat 'dogs), Pizza, Maryland Crabs, Fajitas, and Nachos and you'll have yourself a feast! (I had to three up BRES--we had an awesome crab feast three weeks ago.)


5) What sort of entertainment would you like to see at a team social? Examples might be "human-player" games, arcade-style games, karaoke, dancing, LAN-party games, true "Disney-style" entertainment.

The LAN-party games (especially games in the form of Mario Kart and Mario Party and Super Smash Bros.), dancing, kareoke, arcade games, and even pool, air hockey, foosball, bowling, comedy and live music!

But to top that off: PRIZES!!! PRIZES of all sorts: gift certificates, iTunes gift cards, concert tix, computers, software packages (ProEngineer, Autodesk Inventor among others), speaker systems, T-shirts, shopping sprees, TVs, cars, and all sorts of other stuff donated by the sponsors and local businesses.

Remember: Everybody <3's free T-shirts! If you don't like 'em now, appreciate them when you get to college! You'll get so many that you'll form your wardrobe entirely from it. (I have an engineering friend who does that.)