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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

When discussing while traveling teams may find significant success outside of their region, I don't think "novelty" should be ignored. I don't mean novelty in that they are simply from a different region, but rather that their cultural impacts have not been shared with judges in the past. Judges are often repeat volunteers, especially those put in the position to judge Chairman's. They've likely heard the local teams' efforts in prior seasons, while the traveling team's may be new to them. It's not the same list of exploits that they've heard in years past.

This is true for us in Hawaii and many of our team members don't care to compete there.
Certain judges forget that each year you have a different mix of students, where many new students are experiencing FRC for the 1st time. They deserve to be heard during interviews they practiced for just as much as every other team competing at an event. They don't want to be told NO interview is necessary because we know about your team already.
A different game challenge annually can affect those who have done FRC multiple seasons with different learning experiences which are worth sharing.

We continue to compete at our home event because of the great no. of other Hawaii teams we get to play with, since most Hawaii teams only do that 1 event due to cost.