[Koko Ed]

While the championship is great for seeing a wide variety of teams and robots and you get to see people that you probably will never get to see at your regional (I don't really expect many western teams to come to FLR) and the presentation is spectacular the championship is often distant and overewhelming. The energy level is high but nothing like the pure adrenalin of a regional. The regionals are a big old party wrapped around a robotic cometition while the champioinship feels like a convention. It's impossible to match the intensity even with the superior teams.