To each on its own.
But it is always better to get your robot clear inspection ASAP and get a few runs under your belt before thurs.
Or maybe we travel so much further and we are always desperate to have the field to run our robots to make sure everything still work after unpacking the robots.
In any case, you can’t say that not much is happening on wed, and so worlds only starts on Thur.
I am sure to many of us (maybe the majority) would take wed as the 1st official day and not thurs.
i meant like mentally worlds started on thursday for me at least. my mentality was different on thurs compared to wednesday that I guess mentally i thought that worlds started on thurs.
for wednesday my schedule was go to school as normal, be in robotics room for like 3ish hours, leave for worlds, 2-3ish hour drive, get inspected at 4? not sure, explore talk to teams, leave for hotel at 6? i think, not sure
for thursday my schedule was compete compete compete compete compete compete compete
i’d say pretty different but you’re right that worlds started on Wednesday
Although I have never been to worlds, Wednesday is probably quite helpful for most teams. Being able to fix any autonomous problems you have (with the field beings slightly different) and fixing any small things that may have happened over transit. Of course you do have to account for the fact that it will cost more, but given your team is okay with the greater expense I imagine the extra day to be beneficial. And then afterwards you might even be able to have some time to relax to be mentally prepared for the big day or adventure around Louisville for fun.
this is super late, but the biggest reason i could see for moving it out of kentucky is all the trouble vex has to go through transporting all the products and employees from greenville to louisville. Because of this i wouldnt be entirely surprised if they moved it someplace closer to them
Honestly I don’t see anything wrong with KY. Although it would be a lot cheaper for our team if it was held in Texas, It looses the experience of getting to fly and visit somewhere new.
Kentucky is good. I doubt there is a better/equal convention center in the center of the US which would be ideal to provide about an equal drive time for all US teams. I wouldn’t consider hosting Worlds out of the US due to flying costs for the majority of teams, possibly limiting participation for a worldwide competition. (This is also why I don’t think a Singapore signature event would be feasible, but you guys probably know more about Singapore than I do.)
I don’t think it is feasible to have the worlds outside USA as well… but most of the international teams are just hoping that we can save a bit on the cost and remove the hassle of domestic flights (and all the missing luggage as well) by shifting the venue to the west coast
As for Singapore signature event… think we are hoping that we will attract some China teams, which some of them have been flying over to join us for singvex and also some Australia and NZ teams. Realistically, we don’t see any US or Europe teams coming over.
I see. All I heard was Singapore signature event and immediately thought, nah. As long as there are around 100 medium-caliber teams spread across that region you’ll be good.