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I would suggest that it is more a matter of there not being many teams in Idaho (approximately 15), rather than S. ID teams not "traditionally" playing in Oregon or Wash. regionals. The creation of the Utah regional in 2010 proved to be the closest venue for many Idaho teams (especially those entering only a single event) until 2012 with the start of the Spokane and Ellensburg regionals.

The fact that 2122 has entered 6 OR/WA events out of 8 years in our team's existence and 1569 from Pocatello ID 6 events/9 years; and 1891 from Meridian ID,5 events/8 years tends to support the idea that teams from across ID have been regular participants in FRC events in Oregon and Washington, a history that, sadly, has come to a close. We will miss competing with our friends in Oregon and Washington and look forward to meeting new friends farther from home...Vegas anyone?

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By all means! As the announcer on "The Price is Right" says to selected contestants..."COME ON DOWN!" We are having a grand 10th year celebration and would love to have more teams from your area share in the festivities. Any way you look at it as more districts are created there will likely be a few regionals left to service sparse populations and visiting international teams. We are hoping to continue to be one of those special cases that serves a special need!

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Well, the pits and the field will be in the GWCC, so it'd be just "next stop, GWCC."

- Sunny G.

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Just waiting for the schedule to be finalized for a couple of regionals. A Week 6 in Vegas could work very well.

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It is a week 6 event...it is pending because we are just putting the insurance package together and at that point can sign the venue contract.

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I do hope that the Vegas regional continues to be one of the special cases. The city itself is a great reason to continue the way things are. It seems as though Hawaii and you folks, for the time being, is going to stay that way.

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I should have said since the Utah regional teams from S ID haven't been playing at the regionals that the PNW district with a couple of exceptions. Your team 2122 and 4106 are the only S ID teams that have recently played in a PNW regional and in both cases that was for 1/2 of the events attended. 3251 a team in the middle or the state played in a PNW regional in 2011 but not in 2010, 2012, and 2013.

1891 and 1569 haven't competed in an OR or WA event since 2009, neither have 1566 and 2594. 3562, 4086, 4175, 4178 have never played in a PNW regional.


The Panhandle teams 2130, 3145, 3315, 3513, 4520 have only played in PNW regionals in recent years. Which is why they were asked if they wanted to join the PNW district in 2012 and were invited to attend the PNW district information webinar in May 2013, and a mentor from at least one team did participate.

It is unfortunate that we won't be seeing the teams from ID in our area anymore, but lines have to be drawn somewhere, but nothing says they can't be redrawn in the future, and hopefully interdistrict play will be a reality for the 2015 season.

For the North Idaho teams, is the Calgary Regional still within driving distance?

The Calgary area teams are in a bit of an island too with the PNW going district, but they at least have a Regional event to call their own!

Is there a contact in N ID who we can reach out to? The earlier the better, because things like passports need a fair bit of lead time...

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Coeur d'Alene ID to Calgary is about 400 miles/8hours so N. ID teams could make Calgary regional work....

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It does look like Calagary is going to be the closest for the N ID teams. You can find the teams at the first website in the what's going on in my area. The link below will get you the ID teams that participated in 2013. If you click on the team number most of them have websites that have information on how to contact them. You can check my earlier post to determine the N ID teams.

The other big hurdle could be getting the school district to approve an out of country field trip, sometimes it is hard enough to get them to approve an out of state trip.

I have to wonder if FIRST really looked at the hardship excluding the N ID (and W MT) teams from the PNW district would create.

http://www.usfirst.org/whats-going-o... h_teams_form

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Wondering if Bilfred has seen this....

http://www.visitmyrtlebeach.com/incl...temap/sitemap/

Its not on the First site yet. So it seems that it will be in Myrtle Beach again.
Nice venue, but hope the Team Social will be better than this years was.

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Interesting, since the FIRST site says Palmetto will be in N. Charleston.

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My sources (VERY reliable ones) say Week 1, Myrtle Beach. Charleston was very good to me, but I would only expect to be back there if there was something absolutely irreconcilable in Myrtle Beach.

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And thus it is so, according to the latest list.

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We are just waiting on an OK on the final contract then we can announce Inland Empire. So close...