Chief Delphi - Any new regionals next year?

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Originally posted by Todd Derbyshire

To make myself clearer...
1) Yes, I was referring to Manchester and I don't truly understand why Matt you are having such a hard time trying to grasp this concept. If you were to name the three places in New England where you might hold a Regional you would either hold it in Boston, or Manchester. Now because FIRST has a lot of support in Worcester; it is also a consideration. Now I know the statement that you made saying that nobody from NY or Pennsylvania would come is false. I know people who travel from New York and Pennsylvania who travel for tournaments all the time in another hobby that I am involved in. The reason why they come is not due to the fact that there isn't a competition in New York or Pennsylvania, but because of competition, and with all of the veteran teams originating in this area I think this could become the superstar Regional they could become a preview of the finals in Florida.
2) Second your claim about nothing being north or east of Manchester who needs teams from the north or east. You have roughly thirty teams from either MA, RI, or CT. Then you add in the teams from NH, VT, and ME and you have a good-sized regional in the late thirties to the forties in # of teams.
Anyways just thought you would like to be corrected, however you are right that Manchester is not the right place the right place would be :D Boston:D
Todd who is right now dreaming!!

1) Actually, I don't particularly have a problem with a new regional in New England. I'm just trying to point out some reasons why it may be a bad idea. Do I agree that it's a bad idea? I don't particularly care all that much in all honesty. So don't take any of this personally. As far as teams treavling to MA or NH for a regional from NY or PA, it's not that no one would not concievably go, it's more that there's an alternative closer to home and that coupled with the fact that most teams only go to one regional means that no one would want to go to the new New England regional. Just because it's possible teams will come doesn't make it likely.
2) As far as teams around Manchester goes, there are no teams in Vermont and one or so in Maine (I'm only sure about the Vermont number). I believe there are about 5 teams in NH and probably 15 or so in MA (that's just a guess off the top of my head -- correct me if I'm wrong). But the most important thing to remember here is that even if there are 30 or 40 teams in the area, a good portion of those 30 or 40 teams go to the UTC New England Regional. You can't destroy a current regional in starting a new one. FIRST won't allow it. And I doubt most of the teams in the area would go to the new regional as opposed to the UTC New England regional.

As far as a regional in Boston goes, as far as I know, no one's trying to organize a regional there. I believe FIRST generally only starts a regional after there is local support and not that they get local support after deciding to hold the regional. If you want a regional in Boston, my suggestion would be to try and organize people to start one. Then again, I've never tried to start a regional before but instead have just talked to someone who has. :)

Matt