[Josh Hambright]

I can definately see what your saying and i could see maybe 10 years or more down the road where lots of high schools have teams and regionals will be state regionals and then those will then transfer over to state competitions and then nationals. Unfortunately however this will limit how many teams can goto nationals and such and you wouldn't have a chance to compete with teams all across the country like we do now at regionals.

The other problem i could forsee is funding. Basketball teams dont have NEARLY the budget requirments of a FIRST team, and many teams have trouble finding funding in their town for one team let alone one for each high school in town.

There will always be a place for invitationals and off season competitions. Even in things like basketball and baseball there are still offseason competitions and tournaments where teams travel around the country and play other teams.