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Subject: Re: [VADCFLL-L] One reason we should not have tournaments
later
From: "Kaperick, Joe"Kaperick@AFTONCHEMICAL.COM>
Date: Fri, November 21, 2008 2:28 pm
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______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ To UNSUBSCRIBE or CHANGE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION, please visit https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-l.html and select "Join or leave the list". If you want to join the VADCFLL-ADMIN-L mailing list - to which FLL administrative announcements will be distributed - visit https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-admin-l.html and select "Join or leave the list".I would also imagine that you don’t want to strain the resources that are heavily involved in running many of these tournaments – that being the high school robotics teams. Their season starts in the first week of January and goes heavy until March. It appears to me that at least the Maggie Walker tournament would have been almost impossible without their participation which would be difficult to get in the spring.Joe KaperickSt. Edward-Epiphany SchoolRichmond, VAFrom: First Lego League Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rusty West
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 2:16 PM
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Subject: [VADCFLL-L] One reason we should not have tournaments later
I can offer a little history on this. Previously the tournaments wereheld in Blacksburg. Because of weather we had to move the statetournament to January. That made it more difficult because you haveteams from all over Virginia going up into the mountains during the unpredictable winter months.It was scary being responsible for cars of students when the roads werestill icy. James Madison is a little bit of a better location as it isnot in as high an elevation as Blacksburg, but the teams from the eastmust still cross Afton Mountain, in the winter, to get there.The other thing is many of us have other activities that we do withstudents that start up in January ( TSA, OM, and in tidewater we haveGreat Computer Challenge ).Rusty WestPage Middle SchoolGloucester, VA
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