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I would say that not only would it be hard to throw together a regional in a month, I'd say it's next to impossible. We've been working on the Rochester Regional for about the past two months (well, really since last spring but it really picked up steam this fall) and, at this point, we don't even have all of the committee heads finalized yet. To get a regional committee to the point of being able to hold a regional next year in a month would be an outragous logistic attempt. We already feel like we're behind schedule in Rochester and we have over a year to go.
As to FIRST needing more staff, I'm not really sure if that's going to be necessary. FIRST has started to rely more and more on local Regional Committees for the running of the actual regional. Through the way its running the regional process, FIRST is returning more to the grass roots effort that has worked so well with team growth.
Matt
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