2010 Regional Dates

[Doug G]

Originally Posted by Fe_Will

This is the most confusing date and totally conflicts with what I heard... From my understanding it is set for week 3. At least that's what Oregon teams were told a week ago.

Overall I'm pretty disappointed in the slow turn-around of information. I understand that there are only so many bodies at FIRST but its not like they didn't have months to get these details set in stone. Lead time is important if teams are going to make sound travel plans and not pay dearly to travel to distant regionals.

I'm stumped at this one too. Checking out the UCD ARC Pavillion reservation system shows it is booked from Tuesday 3/30 thru Friday 4/2. Which would support this midweek regional idea. Perhaps this is an attempt to avoid Easter Sunday travel? The sad thing for us, is we get the week after Easter off, not the week before. So for us to attend this regional which is just minutes away, I need to pull students out from school for a couple of days before their Spring Break. Strange.....

[Fe_Will]

Originally Posted by Doug G

I'm stumped at this one too. Checking out the UCD ARC Pavillion reservation system shows it is booked from Tuesday 3/30 thru Friday 4/2. Which would support this midweek regional idea. Perhaps this is an attempt to avoid Easter Sunday travel? The sad thing for us, is we get the week after Easter off, not the week before. So for us to attend this regional which is just minutes away, I need to pull students out from school for a couple of days before their Spring Break. Strange.....

Sadly, Davis is one of the top two second regionals on our list... But a mid-week regional right after our spring break won't go over too far with parents and administrators. Hopefully its just a typo

[Doug G]

Originally Posted by Fe_Will

Sadly, Davis is one of the top two second regionals on our list... But a mid-week regional right after our spring break won't go over too far with parents and administrators. Hopefully its just a typo

Careful, Easter is Sunday, April 3. You may have the week off if you get the week before easter off.

[Fe_Will]

Originally Posted by Doug G

Careful, Easter is Sunday, April 3. You may have the week off if you get the week before easter off.

We have the 22nd to 26th off... no dice.

[Raul]

Real dates are posted now:
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...ts.aspx?id=430

[Raul]

And the Michigan events are here:
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...t.aspx?id=9508

[Akash Rastogi]

A note to those wondering why NJ is 5th-7th:

There were many teams who's school would not allow ANY students to travel during our state testing for juniors (and practice testing for freshmen and sophomores). These teams should be very thankful to the NJ planning committee and the Sovereign Bank Arena.

[flyingcrayons]

I love the NJ planning committee... and you too akash

[AndyB]

Midwest, Boilermaker, and St. Louis all on the same weekend? That's a bit... weird. Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Kansas City might be seeing some new teams as a result.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Well this gives me a vague idea of what my vacation time will be next year.

Schedule confirmed.

[GearsOfFury]

Originally Posted by AndyB

Midwest, Boilermaker, and St. Louis all on the same weekend? That's a bit... weird. Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Kansas City might be seeing some new teams as a result.

Plus, Wisconsin is the week before Midwest/Boilermaker/St. Louis - not cool for shipping! I'm sure they tried the best they could, but this makes it a lot more expensive for Chicago-area teams to do a 2nd regional...

[Aren_Hill]

Well they mentioned teams being able to bag the robot and bring it themselves to certain events, this would make a back to back regional doable (wisconsin and midwest), main tough part there is the team missing 2 regionals straight worth of school.

Still rather annoying to put 3 midwest(area) regionals all on the same weekend

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by AndyB

Midwest, Boilermaker, and St. Louis all on the same weekend? That's a bit... weird. Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Kansas City might be seeing some new teams as a result.

Yup and if we are frozen out of the Michigan events again this schedule is just plain awful!!!!

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by IndySam

Yup and if we are frozen out of the Michigan events again this schedule is just plain awful!!!!

b-u-c-k-e-y-e

p-i-t-t-s-b-u-r-g-h

w-a-t-e-r-l-o-o (buses of students 18 and under don't need passports)

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Aren_Hill

Well they mentioned teams being able to bag the robot and bring it themselves to certain events, this would make a back to back regional doable...

I hope they tell us about shipping rules before registration opens, rather than at Kickoff, so we can make these decisions, otherwise, it has to remain on the undoable list.