[nobrakes8]

The New England, Atlantic, and eastern midwest United States is where the top teams are located. With so many compeitions it seems like all the regionals have lost some power teams to the newer regionals. UTC, NJ, and NH are probably still some of the most loaded regionals with excellent teams, just fewer than in the past. The midwest also used to have some loaded regionals but just reading this post and some other posts, it seems like their top 2-3 regionals are loseing teams to newer places as well.

With so many regionals, I bet the invitationals in the northeast are going to be extremely fun to watch. I mean this year's UTC missed a few noticeible teams like Buzz and Sie-H20-bots, I'm willing to bet those guys as well as many of the NJ, NY, UTC, NH teams are going to be at the same invitationals makeing some memorible moments. WPI, Beantown Blitz, bash @ the beach, PARC (assumeing those invitationals are going to happen again) are going to have awsome teams signed up. Realisticly if the top Northeast teams show up to the same place, it will be harder to make elmination rounds at these invitationals than most regionals in the country.