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I'm going to say that the date had little to do with the new restrictions. Instead, these new restrictions were a long time coming. One reason I see for the date having nothing to do with it is that this year's nationals occur at about the same time nationals occured in 1999 and there was no limitation then. This has nothing to do with the date of nationals, instead simply the size.
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The nationals in 99 was about this size. I still have a video from back then, and it said that it had 280 teams nation wide. Which is about the size of this comming years regional. That is 100 less than last year. With almost double the size of the first. So go figure.
I still think that the date has at least some factor in limiting the size for nationals. I mean during the April break, a lot of familes come for a week in Disney. Manily because of the warm weather, and it is not as crowded as it is during the summer. But in first weekend in April, it is as slow as can be, becuase that is usually the end of the Spring Break, and no sizable holidays of any kind. And that is where we can get at least 400 teams. Instead we downsized to about 288 teams. I was just thinking that if they can handle 400 teams last year, why can't they handle 400 teams this year. I mean I can see not expanding, but what plausible explanation can you find that they had to take a hundred or so slots away.