[JohnFogarty]

Let me explain some of the reasons for this change that I know of because I've been talking with some staff at FIRST about creating a system like this for well over a year.

1. The Ability for deserving teams to compete more at a higher level.
We all know there are FTC teams that travel out of state and beyond their own state championship to gain experience and to try for last chance tickets at the world championship. However, it has been the experience of the teams within those states that out of state teams usually that have competed 2-3 times before come in and "clean the floor" with the in state teams, leaving them with no ability to compete at a higher level. Thus the super regional is brought into the picture. This allows/closes states in order to helm them advance their own teams to the regional event and finally allows events to advance whole alliances instead of just alliance captains. Then the super-regional is an event that will have a similar level of competition to World.

2. World Championship will consist of the best teams from around the world.

I know that Global Force is excited about this change since out of our 4 State Championship titles we only we able to attend world twice.