[RRLedford]

We received a Rookie All Star award and cannot attend Atlanta this year.
At the start of the year, the school gave the team the option to compete at two regionals -OR- one regional and Atlanta (if qualified). Not expecting to receive an invitation to Atlanta, the team opted for two regionals as their best chance to have an extended competition season. Then when the invite to Atlanta arrived, and the team wanted to drop going to North Star and switch to Atlanta, it was just logistically too difficult to pull off in such a short amount of time, not to mention that the schools "human resources" now had overlapping schedules with Atlanta. So we are glad to know someone else will fill our slot.
We also learned that, by virtue of not exercising our 2010 Atlanta invite, we do have an early priority access for next year's open slots in St. Louis, so there does seem to be some fairness in at least certain aspects to the process.
-Dick Ledford