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Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri
I'd love to hear some teams from the Toronto area comment on this. It's pretty clear these teams are improving at a rate which isn't matched by any other locality.
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To be honest I don't think the 2nd tier Canadian teams were that much better then in years past, if you go back in the last 4 years teams like 1241, 188, 610, 781 and others have all had strong showings at Champs. It's just that because of the wildcard system more of our good 2nd tier teams got to compete at champs, you all got to see how good 1310, 1334, 4039 and others are too (we also got a bit of luck this year
). It's incredible how well Canadians did this year, but then again I always knew that we have a great depth of teams from how strong our regionals are.
I have to give a ton of credit to Mark Breadner and all the Canada FIRST staff and volunteers for the support network they have built, but 1114 and 2056 being the best in the world gave us all great teams to emulate and strive to beat.