[Jessica Boucher]

Kevin is right in that there are a bunch of reasons that decide when a regional is slated.

Dean once stated that he would like to see a regional in every state. This is alinged with his desire to put FIRST in every high school; you are going to have to have state tournaments. This is the price we pay for growth, but I would not necessarily call it a bad thing. Moving regionals towards a more limited availability will shorten the amount of time a team has to take off from school, it will drive growth of off-season competitions.

I would like to one day see a sattelite link between the chunk of events in a weekend to increase interactivity between the events.