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Our area is definitely lacking off-season competitions. The problem is, we lack places to hold any. I mean, we have universities, but we're unsure of money and if they would actually let us have one. I think Maryland really needs competitions...We used to have the Maryland State Fair competition, but they stopped it this year since it was too much money to keep going.
Our team tries to be as local as possible, so I think it would be good to have more competitions here in MD than having to go out of state for every competition.
Going out of state is worth it, but it'd be nice to have local ones.
--d0ri