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Originally Posted by KTorak

I have to say I don't know if I, or my team will be willing spend the money to go to Altanta again unless we win a regional/award to qualify. It just isn't that fun of a place to go for 4 years in a row and I think a break would be nice. I don't know how many other people feel the same way, but I'm sure some do.

That's how our team feels. Our last trip of the season was to go to the Philly regional. It was a close place that we wouldn't need to fly and we spent as much money to go there as we would have for Nationals. But in Detroit we won the Engineering Inspiration award and would have liked to go to Atlanta because we thought we might have a shot. We tried to cancel Philly for Atlanta but we were unable to go there financially. Then one day about two weeks before Atlanta we got a call from our state congressman that said he would find the money somewhere to send our team to Atlanta since we were doing such a fine job this year. I think that the only way we will go back is if we win a regional, a regional chairmans award or something like that.