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All teams get educated and inspired by going to regionals. Last year my team got dead last (53rd out of 53) at the St. Louis regional, but we had a blast. If FIRST does ever go to a system where you would have to qualify for nationals, I would still want there to be a huge number of teams in attendance. If they took, say, every team that participated in the elimination rounds at regionals, I would be perfectly happy with that. I don't agree with the 'half the teams can go to nats this year, but the other half has to work' rule. It's getting sort of ridiculous. And besides, if a team doesn't make it to nationals, wouldn't that inspire them to achieve even more the next year so they could qualify then?