my idea, probably wrong, but just a thought... FIRST is probably trying to move regionals that have a knack for dealing with kinks in the system, and run smoothly up the list, this way they can set precedents for the later week regionals. If they have too many in the first few weeks, you'll get contradicting calls more often... and more teams will say "but, in NJ, we would have won!" etc etc.
not so say one staff is better than the other.. don't get me wrong, you're all great
