Well, now that that is sorted out: The future of first
I definitely think in 5 years we will have expanded to about 1550 to 1700 (thanks for the correction in math) teams. We went from 12 to 900 in 12 years, so that rate is just going to grow exponentially larger. As a result, there will have to be more/longer regionals and it will be extremely hard to find a city big enough to host nats unless we keep it at about the number of teams we had this year. Otherwise, with more regionals, there will be more qualifications, and we will have a hard time trying to find a city to host our competition (especially if the hotels in Atlanta get word out of what we did there
) As for speculation of where the 2007 nationals will be (Atlanta's contract is only through 06) Probably a big city with an indoor stadium, possibly in the midwest. All I care is that it isn't in Hartford, that would suck for everyone.