Quote Originally Posted by typhoon_driver
It is a shame that the dates aren't fantastic for everyone potentially involved but has anyone contacted any schools yet and explained the situation?
I do appreciate the position parents these days are in, as school rules have tightened up. When we did Robot Wars we had to get permission from the school, it was harder then in some ways because it was an open-ended time scale (dependent on how good the robot was). It has to be worthwhile at least asking the schools.

For us we never stayed in the competition very long so the school didn't end up being a problem

John