2017 Miami Valley Regional (formerly Queen City)

[Dave Campbell]

Just in - The Miami Valley Regional is the new home of the former Queen City Regional. Look for exciting changes at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. We hope to deliver a great experience to all teams attending our new home. Registration opens this Thursday! Spots will fill quickly in this Week 2 event!

[Jimmy Nichols]

Well its official, The Miami Valley Regional will be Week 2 at Wittenberg University in Springfield, OH this year. Formerly known as the Queen City Regional. Since the Cintas Center is going to be under construction right after the Basketball season we were forced to relocate the event. Although we will be at a different venue, we are expecting to provide the same level of excellence that has become the expectation at QCR. We are still finalizing several details but expect to be posting information as we can. Please feel free to ask any questions you may have.

Thank you!

[Hallry]

I've merged three separate threads about the 2017 Miami Valley Regional into a singular one. Let's try to not make duplicate posts and search before posting.

[Jimmy Nichols]

I immediately went to the Regional Competitions Forum, didn't see it and since I am the one who posts every year I didn't think there would already be one. Guess Dave and I will need to have a talk.

I guess we are just too EXCITED about the new location!

[guniv]

We're strongly considering attending this regional this year because Rocket City is the same week as our home regional.

Just to clarify, you anticipate slots filling quickly for this event? How many slots will there be?

[Jimmy Nichols]

Originally Posted by guniv

We're strongly considering attending this regional this year because Rocket City is the same week as our home regional.

Just to clarify, you anticipate slots filling quickly for this event? How many slots will there be?

Based on the surrounding events and the Hardship associated with Back-to-Back events we suspect being a Week 2 event will cause us to fill up quickly. Given that we have held back 15 spots for Rookie teams and Ohio Veteran teams. Historical we have teams in Ohio that take a while to register due to administrative hurdles within the school PO system and such.

[guniv]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Nichols

Based on the surrounding events and the Hardship associated with Back-to-Back events we suspect being a Week 2 event will cause us to fill up quickly. Given that we have held back 15 spots for Rookie teams and Ohio Veteran teams. Historical we have teams in Ohio that take a while to register due to administrative hurdles within the school PO system and such.

Gotcha. So there are 45 slots for the event and 15 are held? I was just curious because the listed amount of 35 was oddly low for a regional.

Is 15 the number of teams you anticipate for the first registration date next Thursday? We're also trying to gauge if we need to make this one our first so that we can have a spot or that we'll be relatively safe making it our second.

[Jimmy Nichols]

Originally Posted by guniv

Gotcha. So there are 45 slots for the event and 15 are held? I was just curious because the listed amount of 35 was oddly low for a regional.

Is 15 the number of teams you anticipate for the first registration date next Thursday? We're also trying to gauge if we need to make this one our first so that we can have a spot or that we'll be relatively safe making it our second.

There are 50 spots, with 15 held. The Hold Back is the number of slots we are reserving for late registering Rookies or Veteran teams stumbling with getting PO's in place for registration. Typically all Regional's hold back at least 10 spots. We decided to hold back a few more based on our location and the other scheduled events.

[mathking]

So is this move going to be just a one year thing or a more long term move?

I think we will be coming if we can get in. It is close enough for us to commute rather than get hotels, so there will be a substantial savings in the cost for students.

[Jimmy Nichols]

Originally Posted by mathking

So is this move going to be just a one year thing or a more long term move?

I think we will be coming if we can get in. It is close enough for us to commute rather than get hotels, so there will be a substantial savings in the cost for students.

That is unknown at this time.

[mathking]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Nichols

That is unknown at this time.

I figured. Well thank you to everyone involved for all the hard work keeping the regional running this year despite the loss of venue.