On Bills Blog the announcement was made that New Zealand won't have a regional in 2009 as originally proposed.
They believe that there is not enough time to get it organised. They are hoping to have a 2010 New Zealand Regional.
They will try and have some activity for the teams.
This is going to disappoint a lot of teams who have been working hard to raise money, build Vex robots etc.
I hope First will still let the New Zealand teams have access to the controllers, KOP etc so they can at least gain experience.