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Sorry to say- I doubt if SATs, APs, MCATs, IQs, DQs or any other test will really have any impact on whether or not the Nationals are on a given day. Only a small percentage of the students involved would be effected. And while they may be very important to you I doubt if they have much significance to the decision makers at FIRST. Not everyone will be happy about this.
One of the biggest concerns is that the robots from the last round of regionals can be shipped to the Nationals in time by Fedex. If you recall last years situation, Fedex fits the machines in any free space they have on flights. It took a while to get our robot returned from the Nats because of this. Therefore the two weeks after the April 3 weekend are not workable.
As for the Houston regional- well the rumor theory might account for the lowered enrollment. It could also be that with all the new regionals available, the teams that have attended Houston in the past have siphoned off to other sites. In any case the location of a regional and the nationals are not necessarily interconnected.
I stick with May 3, Houston. (We've heard a few things out here)
WC
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