Regionals
 

Welcome to the Arizona Regional
 

Great choice Halo! I think you'll all have a great time here in AZ. The site for the competition and the team social are awesome, and the weather will be similar to Florida, except without the humidity. It surely will be warmer here in March than in Tunkhannock Pa.

:D

we're going to NYC this year (hopefully we'll make it to nats but we'll take it one step at a time).. anyway when i signed onto the team registration system it said teams could only sign up for one regional. Oh well we're broke anyway

/me wants the 8th to get here fast (root canal day :D :D :D )

I wanna go to AZ..:( Katie is going-but team #93 will be at home. Come see us at MMR and Nationals

i believe 810 is doing SBPLI and whatever else we want. we want to do a second, but that's not a choice at the moment. any suggestions besides NYC?

Seattle :-)

NO!

/me ties michael into the chair

you can't go :D

/me gently unties M :)

- Katie

Oh, we're going to M(?)MR ...

Chell - I *might* be going ... hopefully :) There are still a few technical details to work out heehee!

It appears nobody wants to go to Sacramento (0 teams signed up so far). I wonder why...?

We're gonna go to the Midwest regional as our 1st choice and then West Michigan.

Regionals......
 

Hey all! TJ² is signed up for Manchester. Hopefully we'll get to go to the J&J Regional as well, and also Nationals if we get that one point that we need in Manchester!

See ya guys lata!

Personaly I am going to VCU and Annapolis, and hopefully San Jose.
Also hopefully I'll find a team and go somewhere with them.


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NYC Baby!! We voted last night and as far as I can tell we'll be heading back to the awesome NYC Regional again this year!!!

See you there 713!

Us fools from oconomowoc shall be hitting 2 regionals and the Nationals this year. Definetely going to Evanston for the Midwest Regional and either cleveland or St. Louis for our 2nd....loook out :D

Right now were going to N.H. and nationals ...Hopeing to attend another reginal ( need funds):(

My team is signed up for the Canadian Regional right now.

We will also be going to Florida for sure.

We most likely will also be at the Great Lakes Regional in Ypsilanti, MI.

This year I hope we can face each other at least once (i think we'll have working engineers this year too)

Sacramento
 

Sacramento was originally planned for 2004, then got moved up to 2003 kind of last minute. You'll see the new rookie teams from the Sacramento area and Nevada start to register over the next couple weeks, as we're doing workshops and rookie information meetings about registering, getting mentors, and getting teams started.

The other main reason is the new registration system - Northern Cal will be much like Michigan, where one event may look like it doesn't have many teams, but that's just because teams could only reigster for one event right now. Once teams can enter a second event in November, you'll see many of the Silicon Valley teams add Sacramento. By mid November, you'll probably see 30 or more teams in Sacramento and Phoenix (many Southern Cal teams will add Phoenix as their second event).

But for teams looking for great events to go to for a second or third Regional - I'll make these three suggestions:
Sacramento, Seattle, and Phoenix.

All three will have smaller fields, probably between 35-40. This means the teams get to play more, get to know other teams better, a higher percentage of teams in the field will get recognized with awards, more pit area space, and so on.

Also, Sacramento and Phoenix are early (weeks 1 and 2) - which is a great opportunity for teams to get some practice and improve their robots for later competitions. PLUS, of all the regionals in weeks 1 and 2, it's a safe bet that Sacramento and Phoenix will have the best weather and travel conditions.

Seattle is just Seattle - great major city which is nice to visit if teams haven't been before, very beautiful area, great modern venue, and a really neat collection of teams from Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, and ???

I'm one who thinks teams should always pick their closest/home Regional for their main/or only event. For the teams able to attend multiple regionals.....There are many great events around the country - so you really can't go wrong - but I highly recommend those 3.

Sacramento Next
 

We're picking Sacramento on November 1st. I figured I should sign up for NYC first, and I am glad I did! Closed after three days, wow. Do teams in New York get to play more matches, since there are so few spots?

Eric.

Re: Sacramento Next
 

I think that was the case last year, we went to both NYC and UTC and I think we played more matches in NYC,

That is counting only qualifying matches and not championship matches.