[waialua359]

Jason,
Great points made.
I wont be surprised anymore as FIRST moves forward to making things bigger, better, and more efficient/cost effective. The economy certainly will affect all of us if those things aren't proactively looked at.
From the new control system, to different flooring for a change, to more collaborations amongst teams across the continent, to predictions from "Looking Forward," former students becoming elite mentors of new teams, to expansion to different countries, to the use of Twitter, etc. it makes myself excited year after year, despite the hardships that come with doing such a program.
This whole FIRST thing is a dam-n you do dam-n you dont program.
Some days you want to just take a break from it all, and the next day, you miss it and cant stop thinking about it.

I'd bet that after every regional event, FIRST participants have a hard time sleeping, playing matches in their head over and over and over again.