Question for all you forum goers....Regionals...

[Nate Smith]

Originally posted by David Kelly



Late April?!?!? are you serious? that would mean that they are either doubling up less on regionals per weekend or jsut pushing it waaayy back for some reason. i don't like that idea because thats' starting to get into even hotter weather than it already is. I thought that the date they had before was perfect. maybe thats what you get for an expaning organization.

Just was reading over these posts, and was reminded of a few things that Bob Hammond said when I was talking to him at the team forum here...as far as doubling up regionals, they're doing even MORE of that now, with the new events...they were forced, because of scheduling conflicts with the sites, and not wanting to have more than 4 events one weekend(due to the limited number of FIRST staff that exist to man all of the events), they were forced to put in a 5th week of regionals, and so having Nationals the first week of April no longer worked out. And because of spring break timing and the easter holiday, it's not real easy to do it in the middle of the month. So, end of April becomes the only alternative.