[Allison K]

As part of a team that can hardly afford one regional, my first thought was that a rule like that would level the playing field more. But upon a few minutes thinking...

How depressing would it be, if your team did awesome and won an award, but it was your second regional. I think that the teams that work hard to raise the money to go to multiple regionals have earned their multiple chances. Even for the teams that don't need to fundraise as much, because they have corporate sponsorship, there must be something about that team that made that corporate sponsor want to give them all of that money.

Besides, the current system seems to be working out. Why rock the boat (at least in this case). I haven't heard of any teams that are heartbroken because they have not had the chance to attend championships (In fact there's still 7 championship spots open). There is a certain feeling of accomplishment one gets by qualifying, but I don't think I'd feel my team was any less worthy if we didn't qualify by winning something.

~Allison