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Originally Posted by Christopher149
Should be soon with this many teams. Just need to be able to get an organizing committee together.
I made a map of where teams are in China. There are 14 in the proximity of Hong Kong / Shenzhen. It is, however, about 1200 miles from Beijing where 2 teams are. So, my immediate reaction is hold it near Shenzhen and several teams will just have to fly (but they do that already to Hawaii or Sydney or elsewhere).
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I would be willing to bet that when the regional in china happens it will be in the Shenzhen area. While there may be some teams inconvenienced by the travel distance, long distance affordable transit is much easier in china than in the USA (and much cheaper if you consider that right now all of the teams are coming to the USA). Both FIRST partners in china (Semia and Dadalele) have their Headquarters in Shenzhen along with the highest concentration of teams.
That being said, I thing that the growth will be very fast in china and they could possibly support two events in their first year (north and south). I am very interested to see how this develops over the next few years.