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Which is worse... posting a duplicate thread, or reviving a five-month-old dead thread? In my mind, this was the lesser of the two evils.

Let's see some excitement for this regional, eh?! The West Coast needs some love too!

Quick facts:
- There are 64 total teams signed up for Seattle, a vast expansion from last year; this makes Seattle one of the larger regionals.
- 40 of those teams are attending Seattle as their only regional. The other 24 have been to one other regional (21 of those are Portland, plus one each from Florida, SVR, and BAE). No team is attending three regionals.
- Location, location, location: 2 teams coming down from Canada, 1 from California, 7 from Oregon, 3 from Idaho, 1 from Montana, 47 from Washington... and the interesting ones: 1 each from Florida, New Hampshire, and Turkey!!!
- Of those 64 teams, 28 are rookies. 23 of these rookies are from Washington. The others are the three Idaho teams, 2898 coming up to play again after Portland, and the team from Turkey.

Should be an interesting field; twill be interesting to see how all the rookies do. 1318 and 1983 are coming back from our win in Portland, but I wouldn't be surprised if there is a different style of play this time around compared to Portland. 360, 488, 948, 955, 1510, 1778, 2046, 2147, 2471, 2850, 2865 are all teams that made it to elims in Portland. Faraway guests 945 (NH) and 1280 (CA) also made it to eliminations in their own home regionals. 1280 was particularly impressive; it took the Cheesy Poofs to stop them from winning the regional. I'll be watching that team, definitely.

Any more thoughts?