I found the Granite State Regional to be very exciting and entertaining. There were a vairety of robots competing and it discourages me when I hear of teams tying at 0-0 at others.
Watch some of these videos, especially those with teams 501 or 40 in them.
http://soap.circuitrunners.com/2007/movies/nh/
Even though you can't hear the crowd you can be sure their teams were cheering their heads off. Hopefully this will bring some light to this so called 'booring' competition.