[Elite101]

This would be huge for spreading the FIRST Fever across the country. Furthermore, since it is now just FIRST and no longer US FIRST, maybe the time should be taken out to increase international teams. I know in the NJ Regional, the Vice Consolate of Brazil was there to watch one of the Brazilian teams be chosen for an alliance and end up becoming finalists. If we could just encourage members of the international community to come out and just watch for a day... see what happens and the excitement of a competition... I think it would really help. This would especially be true if they came out to Nationals, where you cannot not cheer or have some feeling of excitement while watching the competition.