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When FIRST originally released its schedule of evetns there was a specific place for the Pacific NW Regional, but now it's TBD. This leads me to believe that for some reason the location FIRST wanted to use backed out of hosting the Regional. So my guess is that FIRST has limited the PNW Regional to 20 teams because that's the minimum number of teams that FIRST would like to see at a competition.
As for other regional sizes... the Silicon Valley Regional says that it's full with 42 teams. Last year the SV Regional was at the same location and had 52-54 teams competing. I can't see what FIRST would have to gain by downsizing the Regionls, especially if the cost of production for each regional isn't downsized. So it seems like FIRST is indeed holding spots for each regional, and hopefully they give preference to teams within the state of each regional.
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