2018 National Tournament: Colorado State University

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rfscoach wrote:
That's using the term rather loosely.
Too true...

For comparison: the 2016 national tournament website in early August here (though the styling and navbar is very broken on the Internet Archive copy, so pages aren't as easily accessible as on the original)
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Are the event times for nationals on the schedule in AM or PM?
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ThiccleRick wrote:Are the event times for nationals on the schedule in AM or PM?
Well, both.
But we aren't having an event at 3 in the morning.
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Froggie wrote:
ThiccleRick wrote:Are the event times for nationals on the schedule in AM or PM?
Well, both.
But we aren't having an event at 3 in the morning.
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Is there any move to petition the directors or something to change the schedule? Who should we contact about this?
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SilverP wrote:Is there any move to petition the directors or something to change the schedule? Who should we contact about this?
It's very unlikely that they're going to change the schedule, especially since it's been out and unchanged for months now :/ Which schedule conflict were you concerned about?
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scioly2012 wrote:
SilverP wrote:Is there any move to petition the directors or something to change the schedule? Who should we contact about this?
It's very unlikely that they're going to change the schedule, especially since it's been out and unchanged for months now :/ Which schedule conflict were you concerned about?
Dynamic Planet and Rocks. I don't see why they would do this, and as a result, it appears Princeton and Yale Invitationals are using the same schedule.
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SilverP wrote:
Dynamic Planet and Rocks. I don't see why they would do this, and as a result, it appears Princeton and Yale Invitationals are using the same schedule.
I'm sure that the tournament directors would not change the conflicts. While it is inconvenient for most teams, the conflict imposes the same restrictions on all teams, and therefore is fair. Many competitions try to match the national tournament's schedule, and for that reason many teams have already adjusted to the conflict.

While this conflict may seem ridiculous, there have been much more arbitrary schedules in the past (2015's national schedule was entirely based on the alphabetical order of events).
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SilverP wrote:
scioly2012 wrote:
SilverP wrote:Is there any move to petition the directors or something to change the schedule? Who should we contact about this?
It's very unlikely that they're going to change the schedule, especially since it's been out and unchanged for months now :/ Which schedule conflict were you concerned about?
Dynamic Planet and Rocks. I don't see why they would do this, and as a result, it appears Princeton and Yale Invitationals are using the same schedule.
Well those two invitationals are also basing their schedules off of the current tentative nationals schedule, and since the tentative nationals schedule says that the two are at the same time, they're just following that.
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pikachu4919 wrote:
SilverP wrote:
scioly2012 wrote: It's very unlikely that they're going to change the schedule, especially since it's been out and unchanged for months now :/ Which schedule conflict were you concerned about?
Dynamic Planet and Rocks. I don't see why they would do this, and as a result, it appears Princeton and Yale Invitationals are using the same schedule.
Well those two invitationals are also basing their schedules off of the current tentative nationals schedule, and since the tentative nationals schedule says that the two are at the same time, they're just following that.
Definitely it's annoying at this point in the season trying to divide up our top earth science people between DP and Rocks, but I guess at least we're doing that now, for Yale and Princeton, rather than just before Nationals. Since we're going to both Princeton and Yale, we were thinking of swapping people between the events for the two different competitions to figure out which pairings work best, it's annoying but at least we're aware of the conflict now and can work to address it I guess.
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