The truly awesome field for St. Louis looks this way, with registration closed and a couple of days to go before initial event payment deadline:
Sixteen St. Louis area teams, including three St. Louis area rookies:
931, 1094, 1098, 1178, 1182, 1208, 1288, 1315, 1329, 1444, 1451, 1658, 1706, 1985, 2014, 2219
Seven Kansas City area teams, including three Kansas City area rookies:
1723, 1752, 1769, 1939, 1986, 2011, 2109
Five returning St. Louis Regional veterans (three or more previous appearances):
525 (IA), 547 (TN), 939 (SD), 967 (IA), 1625 (IL)
Nine veterans with less than three previous St. Louis Regional appearances:
45 (IN), 148 (TX), 217 (MI), 292 (IN), 461 (IN), 829 (IN), 1472 (LA), 1602 (MI), 1646 (IN)
And three more out-of-area rookies:
2133 (TN), 2167 (MO), 2177 (MN)
As usual, watch out for the rookies -- they can and will surprise the unwary.
So we will have IA, IL, IN, LA, MI, MO, MN, KS, SD, TN, and TX represented at St. Louis this year -- eleven states!
Caveat: Things can still change a little, registration rules being what they are.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)