[Al Skierkiewicz]

Ya know....
If we eliminated the ship date, moved the kickoff back a few weeks and provided a random drawing to insure that the early regionals were well attended by rookies and veterans, then teams might be able to attend more regionals. Since there is an abundance of post season events, it is obvious you all want to continue to play throughout the year. By spacing out the regionals attended a team will have less impact on the academics of it's students missing school for regionals all in one semester, etc. Rookies would have a much better first year experience if they were able to work on the robot after seeing other designs. I am not saying I agree with Andy yet, just mulling over the possibilities.
There still is nothing like seeing the robot finally in the box and the last screws going in while it is dragged to the loading dock.

ed. If we were to spread out the regionals, there would be less expense on the playing field shipping since there would be less needed and there would be less of a burnout factor on the FIRST and IFI staffs if they didn't need to be on the road constantly.