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Originally Posted by suneel112
I know its not cool to be egocentric, but here goes:
The Midwest IS WHERE ITS AT!!! LITERALLY In terms of robotics, the Midwest won at least two years in a row, one year with the winning alliance being made up ENTIRELY of Midwest teams
2003 (Houston, Texas): 469 (Las Guerrillas; Bloomfield Hills, MI), 111 (Wildstang; Schaumburg, IL) and 65 (The Huskie Brigade; Pontiac, MI)
2004 (Atlanta, Georgia): 71 (Team Hammond (aka Beatty); Hammond, IN) , 494 (The Martians; Goodrich, MI), 435 (The Robodogs; Raleigh, NC) 2 of 3 were from the midwest.
2005 (Atlanta, Georgia): 461 (Westside Boiler Invasion; West Lafayette, IN), ???, ???
(the last one was just an egocentric prediction)
Anyways, now that I responded with all my egotism, I think its time to get that out and just say that there are great, strong regionals everywhere! 
(as long as everywhere means Evanston, IL; Ypsilanti, MI; or Cleveland, OH)  |
I want to continue suneel's post (I'm going to stick with the midwest / northeast rivalry here, so I'm going to leave out the teams from the other regions) ...
2003 finalists: 494 (midwest), 25 (northeast)
2002 Champions: 71, 66 (midwest), and 173 (northest).
2002 Finalist: 308 (midwest), 311 (northeast)
2001 Champions: 71 (midwest), 365 (northeast)
2001 Finalists: 111, 33, 349, 144 (midwest)
2000 Champions: 25 (northeast)
2000 Finalists: 111 (midwest), 126 (northeast)
(sorry, my memory is pretty fuzzy from 2000 and 1999)
1999 Champions 176 (northeast), 1 (midwest)
1999 Finalists: 111, 45 (midwest)
1998 Champion: 45 (midwest)
1998 Finalist: 121 (northeast)
1997 Champion: 71 (midwest)
1997 Finalist: 47 (midwest)
(Note: 1997 team numbers are the CURRENT numbers for those teams).
So, since 1997 (since I've been involved in FIRST), the number of championship and finalist participants have been (according to my fuzzy memory):
Midwest: 22
Northeast: 8
Granted, I think I may have missed a couple in 1999 and 2000, but it appears the midwest has the edge. Hey Andy, thanks for getting the ball rolling on the trash-talking thing.