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There are a lot more high school sports teams in each individual area than FIRST robotics teams. I can imagine that happening if, say, every other high school had a FIRST team. This would allow you to not travel more than 40 miles or so to get to 3 regionals. FIRST is relatively new and will take much time to expand to the extremity of sports teams.
Maybe what FIRST could do is have each team attend 3 regionals in their area, then the winners (teams winning awards included) go on to a bigger competition (about the same time as nationals), then the winners go to another one, and somewhere along the line there will be nationals, perhaps in the summertime. This would allow more teams to participate in general and have more competitions, but keep the numbers at nationals the same.
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Team 176 Aces High
Mechanical Design Engineer, Hamilton Sundstrand
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