[Rick TYler]

I get that making sure local teams have a place is important -- I really do. It's just that I believe that all students in FIRST are my responsibility, not just the ones on my team in or in my state and I would be very disappointed to have to turn teams away from an FTC event just because they are in the wrong geography.

Having said that, I am on the Washington committee, and I don't know what we would have done had 90 teams tried to register for our FTC event this year. Probably what others have done -- give preference to local teams and accommodate whoever else would fit. I just wouldn't like it.