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I'm going to have to disagree
Posted by Tom Vanderslice.
Student on team #275, ORHS/AST/Hitachi, from Academy of Science and Technology and Hitachi.
Posted on 5/27/99 11:51 PM MST
In Reply to: Bite the bullet in 2000 posted by Joe Johnson on 5/27/99 8:56 PM MST:
I'm gonna have to disagree with you about doing it next year...
Undoubtedly (sp?) it will have to happen eventually, but I think they
ought to figure out how to add another day to the finals schedule before
limiting the number of teams. I don't think you can really tell teams
there must be a qualification of some sort for nationals w/out assuring
there is a regional EVERYONE can easily get too. (this is a big problem
in texas...where our regional was cancelled this year b/c of not enough
teams signed up...b/c even if you have a lot of teams in texas...its
still a hike just to get to the competition...you have some serious travel
time involved...but there are places that its even farther to the nearest
regional)...anyway...what i'm trying to say is...if you have them
qualify you completely discourage real growth in any area where there
isn't a regional...there are many teams out there whose goal is just to get to
nationals...it is a big deal for them...if they can't come it takes away from
a lot of the competition...but like i said...eventually it will have to happen
there is no way around it...i just don't think next year is the year to do it...
Tom
Team 275
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