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Re: This Year's Competition
Posted by Nate Smith at 1/17/2001 6:31 PM EST


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In Reply to: Re: This Year's Competition
Posted by Chris Orimoto on 1/17/2001 5:39 PM EST:



: A little side-note...I think the nationals should be merit based. Maybe the top 4 in each region or something like that. I think the regionals should be of more significance to the entire program than simply a practice round for teams going to the nationals.

While I agree(somewhat reluctantly) that at some point, regionals will have to be a qualifier for the national competition, at this point, the locations of the regionals don't really allow for it to be fairly done. With the locations of the regionals compared to the locations of the teams, there are teams that would either be left out(Hawaii & Brazil come to mind), or it would be hard to determine which teams belonged to which region(which teams go to West Michigan, which go to Great Lakes, and which to Midwest?) So, until the regionals become more balanced across the US(and beyond, which seems to be the direction FIRST is going), I don't think that we can fairly say that a team has to go to Regional X and do well to qualify for the National competition.

Just my thoughts...

Nate
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