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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol
Welcome to the dilemma Midwest teams have every year...
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I'll give you that, but I raise you to the amount of teams in those areas. The North East has a bunch of teams and a few regionals are very close to each other. On top of that we're talking about a new regional. We already know that in the NE many teams are somewhat willing to change a week to help support a weaker regional especially a week 1 or 2 regional to get some experience. But in the south (Texas and company) we don't have nearly as many teams. On top of that, hardly ever does a NE team come down as opposed to Southern teams (57 and others) who try to go up North.
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Originally Posted by Amanda Morrison
I'm skeptical this will be an issue - especially after going to the OKC Regional and seeing some of these phenomenal rookies compete. I don't necessarily think established regionals always have the advantage, either...
That aside, if we can bring back some of the defunct FRC teams from the area, it'd be great. Even so, it looks like there are 11 Texas FRC teams for which this event will be closer than the Houston event, and it will be closer for 12 of the teams total that went to Houston last year. There's 39 OK teams, 1 AR team, and 2 LA teams that will find Dallas closer than Houston.
What do you think the regional capacity might be? Especially with the draw of a new regional, 148 might want to invite some of our friends from the north to come compete.  |
I hope that we can get more teams to reestablish themselves, but first we have to think of why they quit and help them work out a solution. If they left because they didn't like it thats one thing, but if they left because they could not recruit students, get funding, or get school (and/or district) support it will be much harder. EVERYONE talks about bringing up new teams, but rarely do I hear of helping sustain teams....
Also, I have a feeling we may even see some Canadians take a hike down in the next few years if not some chickens learning to fly...
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Originally Posted by JaneYoung
From looking at the Regional listing -
LSR had 46 and was full. I'm not sure how different that has been at Reliant.
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... Who says we'll be at Reliant? Word on the grapevine isn't Reliant, but its just the grapevine nothing official.
Pavan
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