[E. Wood]

If a regional has 35 good robots out of 40 and only one national finalist does that make it easier than a regional that happens to have a good robot that happened to be the National Champion? Now this is just an example but regionals that have more team are usually harder than smaller ones just because there are more good teams. Also has the weeks go by some regionals get harder because of the experience that some teams have gained at other regionals. I went to the Pittsburgh regional as a spectator and the Chesapeake regional as a participate and i can tell you that from what i saw it was a lot harder to get into the final 8 alliances at the Chesapeake regional. I am not saying that the winners of the Pittsburgh regional weren't as good, they obvious did well at nationals because Pittsburgh was ranked higher than the Chesapeake regional. But you just cant use the winners of nationals as a way to rank the regionals because not every good team gets to go to nationals.