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Originally Posted by D.J. Fluck
I know this challenge is coming really late/early depending on your perspective, but its never too early to plan to the future....but I've noticed how the west coast teams always challenge the east teams to come west and many of these teams that are financially able/permitted by schools/sponsors have met your challenege, so its time to put the ball in our court. I officially issue a challenge to west coast teams to bear the cold and come east to our regionals. You have a pretty nice selection of regionals from Midwest, Great Lakes, UTC, BAE, New Jersey, and even a few in Pennsylvania and Virginia/Maryland. So if you aren't scared  come and play with us. |
In all fairness, I believe there is 1 thing you guys haven't considered. A lot of west coast teams travel out east to go to the Championship event!
To most of you who are at Florida, Georgia, Houston, or the states close to the Championship events in the past, all you have to do is drive over and compete (I know that's not true for everyone, some of you segway over since it came out, but bear with me here). Mean while, we pay 200-300 dollars per airplane ticket and travel across half, if not most all the way across the country just to compete with the rest of you. I think that deserve a little credit.
I think if we are to have a "challenge" setup, lets make it a fair one. I would consider team 22 Chatsworth high school going to Toronto, team 254 Cheesy Poofs going to Cleveland, and team 330 Beachbot / team 980 Thunder bot coming out to IRI at 02 and 03 meeting the challenge.
I would also consider team 835, and 859 coming out to Sacramento Regional, team 69, 815, 1187 coming to Southern California, and Chief Delphi coming to Silicon Valley Regional meeting the challenge.
Those are the teams that has to travel a long distance to championship event as well as going out of their way to a far away regional ;-).