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I'll put out my opinion: I agree with Billfred and Karthik that many teams are expected to do well year after year and the aforementioned regionals have some good lists of teams. I will also say that the larger regionals will also be a little tougher: there are more teams that you have to do better than to win, more teams that you have to pay attention to when scouting, and fewer rounds per team thus fewer chances to make-up for one or two poor performances. The regionals that have over 60 teams attending fall into this category.

Edit: Billfred: I'm holding you to the egg-cracking bit.

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Agreed. I'd buy that for a dollar.

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But it is a very good indicator.

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First week regionals, overall, tend to be the ones that set the pace. Therefore, any first week regional is, in theory, quite difficult. What you see at any of those regionals is likely to be seen over and over again before the season is over with.

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Just to answer your question, in my opinion the hardest regional out of the two we've been to is probably the Canadian Regional. Why? Well it's got a lot of participants and I'd say that EVERY team is highly competitive hence making the regional itself very "interesting".

But like mentioned above it all depends on certain teams, or nationals. I'd rather not predict the future of something that has a high rate of uncertainty (ex: rookie's and innovative methods).

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I think that tre hardest regional is the Great Lakes Regional, in Ypsilanti, MI i will name somes power house teams 66,67,279,503

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I have been to a lot of the regional competitions and I have to say the Buckeye regional and the Midwest regional definitely stick out in my mind. They are just plain rough.... we'll see you there.


GO 1403!!!

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Personally, I don't think that it's fair to judge a regional as the "hardest" before it happens. You never know what might happen, who might jump out from nowhere, or who could pull a huge upset. Teams come in and out of regionals, and who knows what some of the more advanced teams could be saving for the championships?

Also, what would be the criteria for a "hard" regional? Would it be the one with the highest scoring average? The closest difference between last and first? The most teams? How can this be assured before it actually happens?

My 2 cents (plus one dollar for the egg-cracking bet :D ),
Daniel

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Sacramento, Grand Rapids, and Detroit.

Why? 245 will be there.

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The only hard regionals would be those which have teams who participated in more than one regional previously. This of course would mean most likely all the regionals, but some regionals such as the Midwest and Chesapeake, tend to have these teams. Example teams are 111, 45, and 16.

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The UCF Regionals are challenging because you have temas like Think Pink, Swamp Thing, S.P.A.M., SigmaC@t, etc.... :]

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I think all regionals are tough...I mean every regional will have a few "powerhouse" teams in it...but if I have to choose one it would be Midwest because there is a mix of teams from all over the world and teams like 71, 111 and 108 will be there...I'm sure it will be exciting!

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GLR is the hardest. We have the Big 3 sponsoring every other team and we have teams like 1(Juggernaughts), 66(Flyers), 67(HOT) and of course, 1547 :-D

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UTC... usual teams...

121, 69, 157, 237, 236, 126, 20, 173, 176, 175, 195, 571, 716, 177...

sorry if i forgot anyone...

but that right there is the usually the big teams that is also about 1/3 of the competition...

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I think that Dave voiced his opinion on what regional was the hardest with his "data" about half the teams that were division finalist last year attended GLR.