6 Regional Season?

[brandon.cottrell]

So I was wondering if a team has ever gone to 6 events - 1 event every week of competition season. I'm aware that 1477 went to 4 events last year, and that's a lot for most teams. But has any team ever done 6?

[Andrew Schreiber]

http://www.usfirst.org/whats-going-o...rogramCode=FRC

RIDE likely punched our ticket to NE DCMP where we will attempt to punch a ticket to CMP. 6 events. Plus a week 0.

[waialua359]

6 True 3 day regional events?
If it was up to me, I'd try it and most of our kids would do it.

But then our other mentors and wife would kill me because of it.......so yeah, probably not.

4 on the other hand......

[Mark McLeod]

Here's a simple tally over the years.
It includes CMP.

[Jon Stratis]

I bet it becomes more common with district events - it's a lot easier to commit to a Sat/Sun event every week than a Th/Fri/Sat event where mentors have to miss work and students have to miss school. As to the affect it has on non-robotics personal relationships...

[wilsonmw04]

It would never work. Too many days out of school during a short period of time. Now if we had a 3 month season that would be something else.

[brandon.cottrell]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Here's a simple tally over the years.
It includes CMP.

Oh, so unless the team in 2011 and the team in 2013 didn't qualify it's never happened recently.

[Mark McLeod]

Both the 6-event teams included a Championship visit.

• 2011 was Team 141

• 2013 was Team 3314

It hasn't happened since FRC started in 1992.

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

It hasn't happened since FRC started in 1992.

FRC hasn't always had 6 weeks of competition (for example, in 2000 there were 4 weeks of regionals followed by champs)... Since they started having regionals that qualify for champs, has there ever been a team that competed every week? So in 2000 that would be 4 regionals + champs for a total of 5 weeks.

[StAxis]

I can't imagine it being feasible for a team with a budget of under $100,000 per year, as well as needing a school dedicated to FRC. On top of that having mentors as a paid position would be almost necessary since 3-4 days a week off from a job for 6 weeks plus championships is basically impossible. If such a team existed I would love to be on it, but it will take a lot of development in the FRC world before that becomes possible.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by StAxis

I can't imagine it being feasible for a team with a budget of under $100,000 per year, as well as needing a school dedicated to FRC. On top of that having mentors as a paid position would be almost necessary since 3-4 days a week off from a job for 6 weeks plus championships is basically impossible. If such a team existed I would love to be on it, but it will take a lot of development in the FRC world before that becomes possible.

2012 I did:

Orlando - RI
South Florida
CVR - RI/Judge
MAR CMP - RI
CMP - FLL Judge

Without much problem from from my full time job. My health, however, was a different story. Working 40 hours in 3 days followed by 3 days of regionals and a day of traveling was brutal on my health.

[Koko Ed]

I did 17 events last year.
think the problem of teams doing events week after week after week is missing so much school as much as it is financially difficult. Plus the robot will eventually break down from so much action.

[brandon.cottrell]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

I did 17 events last year.
think the problem of teams doing events week after week after week is missing so much school as much as it is financially difficult. Plus the robot will eventually break down from so much action.

17? Which ones?

[esquared]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

I did 17 events last year.
think the problem of teams doing events week after week after week is missing so much school as much as it is financially difficult. Plus the robot will eventually break down from so much action.

I did 14 last year, missed 3 of the ones I normally volunteer for due to being out of the country for 2.5 months of the year.

I expect to hit closer to 18 this year, with 6 weeks in a row of FRC events helping to establish a strong pace.

I'll still end up behind Ed somehow though

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by StAxis

I can't imagine it being feasible for a team with a budget of under $100,000

😃 One can dream.