[waialua359]

A lot of the concerns I've seen here are about doing more than just 1 event. The FRC experience used to be where MOST teams did just 1 event. As an outsider to district events, it has influenced us to participating in more events and wanting a State (district) Championship much like others that do a week 7 event. This in addition to doing more events at a fraction of the reg cost to participate in a traditional regional.

With respect to the financial reasons behind closing LVR, I would guess that the LVR situation is independent of what is happening in surrounding states such as CA and AZ. Other than the teams in Nevada, if LVR provided an additional event for neighboring teams, I doubt that its enough of a reason for FIRST to say there is a shortage of regionals for teams to participate in, generally speaking.

However, if the reason that FIRST is pulling the plug on LVR is because they cant raise enough money within their own area, to what extent does "pooling" all of the reg fees from teams, should it be used to cover the shortfall? FIRST uses reg fees towards growth, which isnt necessarily within our own respective areas any given year. There is no doubt that LVR is a regional that many teams want to attend based on the no. of participants each year. Does that matter though to FIRST if growth is stagnant and the budget shortfalls? We will find out soon enough.