[princessnatalie]

This is interesting, as my team attends two regionals each year. Our 'home' regional, Autodesk Oregon, and then a Seattle Regional.

The Seattle Cascade Regional was first, and we ended up winning. And this question about going to Oregon was raised. I personally almost didnt go on Thursday and Friday because I didnt want to miss school, but ended up going anyway. We went into Oregon to have fun. We also switched up our drive team, giving new people experience and ended up Top 8. Then we decided that we are competeing to bring 2 other teams to St Louis. We picked an entirely different alliance than in Seattle, despite the fact that our partners were at Oregon as well. We ended up winning, and giving two other teams a chance at Nationals, one of those teams being a rookie team.

I dont think it is unfair to compete at two regionals at all. Our team fought for our win, it wasnt handed to us, and the Autodesk Oregon Regional was very very very intense.