My guess is Social Engineering by FIRST.
It was my understanding that a location had to have at least 10 teams in its area to host a regional. If you look at the regional in Seattle I believe only 3 are from Washington, my guess would be FIRST is holding places.
According to the info available from FIRST all the regionals are now FULL.
Maybe FIRST should limit the number of regionals teams can attend to one or two so more teams can participate.
