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Originally posted by Kyle Fenton
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.
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one of the other reasons they moved it back was because they had to add another week of regionals. FIRST can't move the season forward any more because of the holiday season, so they had no other choice than to move it back. FIRST didn't want to put the new regionals along with the older ones because we would have even less choices to go to. This was the only logical way that it could be done. I think in the long run, people will like and get used to this new format.
That's my $.03