[Racer26]

Not touching the ongoing argument laced with incorrect assumptions, I largely agree with Bochek's last post.

I too was on the edge of my seat hoping that bridge wouldn't balance in Q59, in order to create a more interesting afternoon.

What surprised me was how interesting the afternoon got anyway.

I also agree that the bar in Canada has been raised so high by 1114 and 2056 that the other Canadian teams ARE improving in leaps and bounds. Look at Einstein 2011, Canadians were overrepresented there as a percentage of all FIRST teams by a huge margin.

I DO think its starting to drive the Canadian 2nd tier to start travelling to faraway lands because its the only way they stand a chance to win a regional. 1114 and 2056 have made such a habit of cleaning house, its a bit nauseating.

A number of commenters in this thread will attest that friday evening, I said that I thought the gap this year between 1114/2056 and 188/610 was much larger than in the past. I was astounded by the showing on saturday that not only were 188/610/3360 capable of beating them, but 907/1404/33xx (sorry, cant remember the number) did.