[Peter Matteson]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

Since 2006, 177 has won two world championships, and been to Einstein 5 times. In that same time, they've only won the Connecticut regional once, and in the other years, never made it past the semi-finals. That either means that Connecticut is significantly harder then the world championship, or that 177 has continued to improve significantly every year after the Connecticut regional.

I believe if you look at the data you we see 177 lost to the eventual champion in the last 2 CT regionals in the semis as well as both regionals we competed at in 2007. In 2008 we didn't make the elims, deservedly because we were awful at Hartford.

We have also done only one regional the last 3 years and the generally and it takes the time at the regional to figure out what we got wrong and correct it within our witholding allowence for the next event. If we stopped improving we wouldn't have done what we've been able to the last 5 years.