[miketwalker]

Nothing has changed too much on our team. We only earned 4 points last year in awards because we couldn't afford a second regional and thus only got 2 judges awards. Unless we happen to get lucky and recieve an engineering award or chairman's... or somehow by some lucky chance get paired up with the winning alliance, we won't be going, so for the most part our team isn't even attempting to get funding for nationals, because we won't know till up to a few weeks before, and that's too short of a notice to go anyhow probably.

A few members of our team are preparing to go individually I believe though. But as a team, we won't know if we qualify till right before nationals which just isn't enough time for us to plan.