toughest regional in 2011?

[EricH]

The reason the MI State Championship doesn't count is because it's a championship, not a regional. If the MI teams are going to take MSC as a regional, then I'll go ahead and take the Archimedes, Curie, Galileo, Newton, and Einstein--especially Einstein--"regionals" as toughest.

Oh? You have a problem with including events that you have to qualify to get into as regionals? Well, then, MSC is not a regional.

The MI districts are tough, though. I think those should be counted as regionals; they're as large as or larger than some of the smaller regionals, and the competition level is as high or higher, especially once you get past the first event for some teams.