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Originally Posted by buildmaster5000
If we are going to throw around location ideas, the DC Convention Center has at least 4 halls, each one with more than enough space to support a 65 team regional. The issue would come, I think, when you have to put 4 or 5 sets of bleachers up at once. And I believe DC has airport hubs for United, US Air, and Delta.
In all honesty, the space we had for the first 2 years of the DC regional could have squeezed close to an entire second regional into, so my guess is that someone, with a lot of planning and measuring, could get 6 regional sized setups in there no problem. But somehow I don't think space is FIRST's biggest concern with the championships...
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It will never happen in DC, its just TOO expensive and its def not centrally located. The DC regional is about 2-3X more expensive than other regionals. It is the most expensive only FRC regional competition to run(there are other regionals, mainly New York, that put on FTC and i think FLL comps during the same weekend that raises the cost of their competition above DC, but DC is the most expensive competition that only runs FRC).