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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
Has MAR officially stated how many teams will attend the MAR Championship? All I've seen is "at least 50."
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Last year we had 53 teams attend (out of 99). MAR had to move down to the 64th ranked team to get that many, as 10 teams declined starting with the 37th ranked team. 103 was the only high profile/highly ranked team to skip the event.
We might have to go further down the list this year - Lehigh isn't as convenient for most teams, and a number of teams are prequalified for CMP (25, 103, 341). 365 seems to be skipping MAR CMP and attending Chesapeake instead.
I would be happy to see MAR CMP shrink a bit and go to a smaller/closer venue, and reduce the registration fee, but I think FIRST opposes that. Once the region gets bigger it would make sense, but it seemed like a struggle to get to 53 last year.