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Re: More than One Regional?
Team 980 has attended as many as three regionals, the Championship and two off-season events in a year. That's a lot of competing and rather expensive!
Our preference is to attend two regionals, at least two weeks apart. We generally perform better at the second regional because the initial regional reveals the kinks in our design. Also, we benefit from seeing how other teams have tackled similar problems we've encountered. We like to "flatter" those more clever teams by borrowing from their effective designs. We make good use of "fix-it" windows.
Our "home regional" is the Los Angeles regional, so we get better attendance there from parents and classmates but our relatively small team is basically intact for all of the competitions. The additional cost ($4K) for the second regional is well worth the experience of competing with a robot that performs as intended. It's more than twice as much fun competing in two regionals rather than one!
BTW, by winning in the LA Regional, we've qualified for the Championship as well.
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2003 AZ: Semifinals, Motorola Quality; SoCal: Q-finals, Xerox Creativity; IRI: Q-finals
2004 AZ: Semifinals, GM Industrial Design; SoCal: Winners, Leadership in Controls; Championship: Galileo #2 seed, Q-finals; IRI: Champions
2005 AZ: #1 Seed, Xerox Creativity; SoCal: Finalist, RadioShack Controls; SVR: Winners, Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technologies"; Championship: Archimedes Semifinals; IRI: Finalist
2007 LA: Finalist; San Diego: Q-finals; CalGames: Finalist || 2008 San Diego: Q-finals; LA: Winners; CalGames: Finalist || 2009 LA: Semifinals; Las Vegas: Q-finals; IRI: #1 Seed, Finalist
2010 AZ: Motorola Quality; LA: Finalist || 2011 SD: Q-finals; LA: Q-finals || 2013 LA: Xerox Creativity, WFFA, Dean's List Finalist || 2014 IE: Q-finals, LA: Finalist, Dean's List Finalist
2016 Ventura: Q-finals, WFFA, Engineering Inspiration
Last edited by David Brinza : 24-03-2008 at 19:14.
Reason: Attending Championship, too
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