[Dominick Ferone]

Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard

I hope that this is just a temporary awkward teenage step toward districts that pays off in the long run. The introduction of HVR should help unite upstate and downstate teams while making it more convenient for a few teams to get second plays in.

That being said- if the NYC and HVR Regional committees fail to prioritize low resource teams off the waitlist, this could turn out to be a real disaster. I have confidence that the regionals will work themselves out- the NYCFIRST team is pretty phenomenal at what they do.

And hopefully in future years, the upstate regionals will better organize themselves, or perhaps give us another option to attend- perhaps a Syracuse Regional?

For now, I hope Downstate/Ohio/Montreal is ready for stray NY teams to appear, because Upstate really has nowhere else to go right now.

If NY does go to districts I feel upstate has no problem getting in multiple events. RIT, RPI, Syracuse, can easily have small events pop up. Depending on size even SUNY Poly would consider hosting an event. The problem remains with grabbing a field for the four weeks, and volunteers to go with it.
Downstate may have more of a problem with it than Upstate. If Upstate ran out of colleges, it wouldn't be to hard to get some volunteers then.