One good thing is that...
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(9.6.5.5 Professional Round of Judging)
In the event a team wins at more than one regional event, the second highest scoring animation will also advance to the professional round of judging.
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By this rule, even if one team with a good animation has the money to go to multiple regionals, teams that only attend one regional and have good animations have a reasonably good chance of moving on anyway. But if the team that won at that regional doesn't win at multiple regionals, that puts the one that lost at the first regional under two layers, which makes it unlikely to win at nationals. (i.e. say team A wins over team B at regional 1 but team C wins over team A at regional 2, C is probably better than B; but if team A wins over B and C, you can't tell how good each is in relation to each other, and all three of them move on)
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Originally Posted by Roushey
Well think about it this way.
Even if their animation does win at another regional, they have slim chances of beating the same animation (that it lost to in the first place) again at nationals.
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isn't necessarily accurate...I think two years ago a team that hadn't won any regionals actually won the national award. The judging at nationals is significantly different from the judging at regionals even though the guidelines are the same.