[Andrew Schuetze]

Just to avoid wild speculation regarding the proposed 3rd FRC event in Texas in the Central Texas Region let me inform everyone about the following.

UT - San Antonio has announced that they have put in a bid for hosting this event. I suspect that FIRST will announce this as a site at the World Championship event as they typically announce new tournament sites during that time. UTSA staff attended the Dallas Regional tournament and will also attend the Lone Star tournament this week.

To add to Andrew L's post let me include the following FTC numbers:
2007 17 teams one Championship tournament
2008 53 teams two Championship tournaments
2009 84 teams two Championship tournaments

The potential of the Texas Workforce Commission grants of adding many more FTC teams, we are going to need to develop a system of qualifier events to feed into the Championship tournaments. Please contact myself or the UT-Arlington based affiliate partner if you are interested in creating a FTC team or possibly hosting a FTC qualifier event.

Somebody else will have to post regarding the growth of FLL. Currently 4 championship tournaments with xxx number of teams in each.