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Re: 9 Spots Open Hawaii Regional?
As of this afternoon the FIRST site shows 15 FRC teams based in Hawaii. Ten of these are 2008 rookies and all of those rookie teams have registered for the Hawaii regional. The five veteran teams have all registered for other regionals, and it is probably a safe bet that spots are being held for those teams so they can also attend their own home regional.
I don't see anything wrong with this. Similar situations exist in other regions; for example, three teams based in Indiana decided to register for the Great Lakes regional. It is probably a safe bet that spots are being held for those teams so they can also attend their own home regional (Boilermaker). Nothing wrong there, either.
It is reasonable for us to ask how each regional director or planning committee chair decides the proper number of spots to be held open for situations like this; reasonable to ask, but maybe we shouldn't expect a public answer. For mature regionals, like Boilermaker, that question is easier to answer than for new regionals, like Hawaii.
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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)
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