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Originally Posted by EricH
OTOH, Brazil did something similar at about the same time, I think with a few more teams. That didn't work out for more than a couple of years--there is now no Brazil Regional, and fewer teams. Other than Israel, there are no regionals south of the U.S. border (Hawaii doesn't count as south of the border) at this time.
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In Brazil we have a lot of challenges to turn The FIRST in a strong program.
- our school season starts at march and ends at december (we spend all summer vacations on the build season) and the schools are closed at summer.
-Money: $5.000 for registration in U.S is realy not the same even $5.000 in Brazil, and the exchange literally changes it everytime (we can get 5.000 dollar today and tomorrow this can have the half of the value).
-Kit Of Parts: All brazilian teams, or pick they KOP at a local kick off in U.S and bring at the plane (ilegal for brazilians law) or need to wait a month for receive by mail with a big Importation brazilian tax (some times you can buy a car only with the tax) , (for us 1772 we donīt use KOP anymore, we pick it at the first event and use in the next year)
for this and much more the first 2 events in Brazil had problems.
by the same way, we (1772), 383, 1156, 1382 and 1860 still strong in FRC, now we need to use this "know how" for solve this problems and expand for more teams.
We probably will have more 1 to 3 teams with us at orlando regional next year, and 1772 and 383 are working STRONGLY together for have a regional in Brazil next year or 2015