1156 always attended NJ (2003-2006) and NY state regionals. In the past 4 years we attended SBPLI regional and we felt great. Every team treat us really well.
But since last regional and now with this scenario we feel that abroad (and not local) teams are making local team's life harder.
When you realize that in Hofstra this year we had 3 or 4 pits improvised to fit, so local teams (that probably do only one regional) can attend you start thinking: should we register for this regional?
For us from brazil the only way to attend 2 regionals is playing back to back events. Hudson and SBPLI or SBPLI and NYC would be easy for us, talking about logistics and costs. But this will probably impossible to be made.
This is hard, we hope every team (specially locals) can have their spots.