[Dominick Ferone]

I would say most competitive would have to be the most fairly balanced regional. I've attended many different regionals where there's a couple good robots that can dominate. Last year NYC regional for example had a fair number of teams competing for their first time who weren't confident in their bots, don't have huge test facilities and those things.
There were a few teams who clearly at the event it's scary if they got together, that's one reason we tried to build our alliance where one of the few scary alliances we might face could be shut down.

I think the finger lakes regional is a very competitive one. The last two years I went to it, it's never given who might win. 5254 had an amazing bot both years, and went to the finals but got upset.
When we were choosing an alliance in 2015 it was hard to figure who is the best choice for us, because they're were many great choices. Everyone their picked first round or second is a great partner if you needed their skills.

Finger lakes is so competitive because the qualifies always has great match ups where any match can go either way, and it's always so close. So in terms of most competitive regional I might lean towards it because everyone is so balanced in the sense of how good their robots can be.