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Originally Posted by Andy Grady
Question of the Week (6/14/04):
Do you feel that your region of the country has become overly saturated with offseason competitions, or do you feel your area needs more?
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I live in New England. 'Nuff said.
Okay, in all seriousness, New England is FIRST central. And like American expansion, FIRST started in the east and moved westward. First with teams, then when there were enough, regionals (almost like cities based off villages). Off-seasons follow the same trend (cities turning to a metropolis). Because New England has had FIRST for the longest, it's stable ground. This includes it having more teams (a lot of them older teams). So we get the majority of off-seasons here. Kinda like most of the American economy is based on the east coast, but things have always been gradually expanding westward.
Back off my tangent, I personally feel you can never have too many competitions. It's when two are one right after the other (like Battlecry and Mayhem) that you have a problem. I feel that we can reliably have one a month between May and November, and that is a good amount of FIRST. So IMO, I personally think that New England has the right amount of off-season competitions currently, although I wouldn't have a problem with the occasional minor one popping up every so often.