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We are one of those teams that travels to other states to compete. Up until now, Illinois has held their qualifiers in November and a championship in December. Competing in other states lengthened our season and experience. It also provided us the opportunity to meet a lot of great teams--some of whom we still keep in contact.

Not all the out of state tournaments were championships, some were regional qualifiers too, but admittedly the chance of getting to Worlds from an out of state championship did have its attraction.

This year IL is running 6 qualifiers over a couple months and the state championship in February. I'm pretty sure this will impact our out of state ventures but with a little luck we might be able to participate in at least one.