[vivek16]

Originally Posted by fuzzy1718

The reason for my post way back on page 6 is, I'm tired of seeing and hearing about the same teams in Atlanta, year after year, when I know for a fact that they didn't win a regional. I'm tired of the same teams getting to the playoffs at most regionals. Above all elese I'm tired of veteran powerhouses picking one another at regionals and not letting the teams not already qualified to get a chance at going. Why pick one another when all arealready going, pick the people that have never gone or don't "buy their way in every year. Our team has been turned down at a regional because and I quote them "Sorry, but we only pick veteran teams for our alliance partners" Straight to our faces, that is rediculous, esspecialy after we had gotten the highest scoring match at that regional with them. I simply seen that not competeing at multipule regionals as an oppertunity to let less experianced teams get a chance to be in the playoffs. Yes I know that alot of powerhouse teams are in my area, but I'm not worried about my team. I'm more worried about the teams competing with the powerhouse teams when the powerhouse teams get tired of fighting one another, and travel out of state. If you notice my team only goes to regionals in our state, we don't go out of state, we have only gone to Atlanta when we qualified once, and we are striving to improve our team. We are not a veteran power house and never plan on acting like a few veteran powerhouses do, not all, but SOME. Do me a favor don't respond to this with "You should be spending your time improving you team and not complaining about others, that is a cop-out answer. You know who you are!!!

I most certainly do not have a problem with them going out of state. The MN regional this year was won by an alliance of two out of state veteran teams and another rookie team from MN. I would personally love getting the chance to compete with more power house teams. If getting to atlanta and winning is so high on your list of priorities that you would not want to compete with the best teams out there, maybe your list of priorities needs some reorganizing. Besides, it all helps get the kids inspired (you just need to keep the right attitude about it). The really good teams have put a lot of work in to get to where they are and they deserve to be there if they are willing to work hard enough for it.

-Vivek