Michigan District Event Calendar

[EricLeifermann]

Originally Posted by IKE

Sort of. If you are comparing to 1 regional then doing 1 district should be slightly less (traverse city is slightly further than WI and Minnesota events). $1,000 less registration fee would offset that. For 2 regionals, it would be close depending on team size. You will have $5K less in registration fees, but additional travel fees from the additional 120 miles x2 =240 miles. Either way you are looking at the same meals/ overnights.
If you do 1 district and then 1 out of state regional it should be slightly less than the 2 closest regionals from registration fees and about the same miles.
If you do 2 districts, State Championship, then yes that is more travel and cost than 2 regionals. Registration would be $1000 less, but the added travel will eat that up (1 380 mile plus 2 500+ mile events= about 1200 additional miles).

Your teams best alternative may be to do Traverse City then go to WI or Minn. TC is week 1 and MINN is end of the season. WI I think is week 4 or 5.
3 away events would be very strenuous on any team.

We already have many ideas in place. But i meant more expensive than going to 2 "regular" regionals than going to 2 district events.

[/quote]I know you guys get the short end of the stick with this district thing (compared to say, a Detroit area team), but if the issue is not wanting to make the drive two weekends in a row (as opposed to not wanting to make the drive twice at all), then there's really not much a difference (distance wise) between going to the Genesee District and going to the Oakland County or Lansing District. I have family in Calumet, so I've made the drive at least 100 times in my lifetime, and if you're already making the 10-12 hour drive to get to Genesee, what's another 45 minutes to get to Oakland or Lansing? At least then you wouldn't have to make the trip two weeks in a row (which I've had to do for non-robotics related reasons and can agree it really drains you).[/quote]

Its actually only about 7-8 hours to Traverse City from Houghton so it would be 2-4 more hours to Detroit, not 45 min. And is it the 2 trips, not the 2 trips back to back. 2 trips to the LP, is more expensive than paying for registration and travel to go to MN and WI regionals.