Which Regionals/Districts?

[akoscielski3]

After reading through "2013 Predicted Events Calendar" I was thinking about what regional's Teams where thinking about going to.

So, what regional's are some teams going to, or even considering going to. I know the Regional List isn't out yet, but I'm sure some teams have an idea of where they want to go.

772:
Going to Smoky Mountains Regional (we want to try getting Back2Back Regional wins, Going undefeated there in 2012 wasn't good enough )
Going to Either GTR West, GTR East, or Waterloo. (least likely is waterloo)
Want to go to either two of the above or go to Buckeye. (leaning towards Buckeye)

[Jay O'Donnell]

1058 annually goes to the Granite State Regional in Manchester, NH. We are also planning on going to a second regional, such as Boston, Hartford, or WPI. We went to GSR and Boston this season and both were fantastic events.

[dodar]

Originally Posted by akoscielski3

After reading through "2013 Predicted Events Calendar" I was thinking about what regional's Teams where thinking about going to.

So, what regional's are some teams going to, or even considering going to. I know the Regional List isn't out yet, but I'm sure some teams have an idea of where they want to go.

772:
Going to Smoky Mountains Regional (we want to try getting Back2Back Regional wins, Going undefeated there in 2012 wasn't good enough )
Going to Either GTR West, GTR East, or Waterloo. (least likely is waterloo)
Want to go to either two of the above or go to Buckeye. (leaning towards Buckeye)

Orlando or South Florida would love to have some of our brothers from Canadia come down to visit. And I bet your students would love to get out of the cold weather and into the warm weather of The Sunshine State.

[Walter Deitzler]

Robolions 3397 are going to go to St. Louis Regional, and if the funds permit, Kansas City (but probably not).

[LeelandS]

1405 will be hitting up the Finger Lakes regional, as usual.

Funding, unfortunately, does not permit a second regional.

But if Finger Lakes is the regional we're going to, I'm not heart broken about. I have enough fun there to cover me for weeks to come.

Aaron:

Finger Lakes is also quite popular amongst Canadian teams (with the likes of 2056, 188 and 610 having joined us in the past). If we're fortunate to not have it fall on the same weekend as one of the Canadian regionals again, you guys should consider coming down. Karthik has even graced us with his godly announcing skills in the past.

If not, Buckeye is also a great regional. Having gone twice, I can say you'll have a lot of fun with the teams there.

[rachelholladay]

We always go to the Bayou - its our home.
I'd love to go another regional and we are seriously looking towards Texas. Personally, Im favoring a visit to Alamo, but we will see what happens.

[akoscielski3]

Originally Posted by LeelandS

Aaron:

Finger Lakes is also quite popular amongst Canadian teams (with the likes of 2056, 188 and 610 having joined us in the past). If we're fortunate to not have it fall on the same weekend as one of the Canadian regionals again, you guys should consider coming down. Karthik has even graced us with his godly announcing skills in the past.

I love FLR! We have gone to FLR in the past (2007, and 2009). I went in 2009 when my brother was on the team (my rookie year as a member was 2010). I know we were talking about going to it, I'm not sure why we "decided" (haven't really decided yet) Buckeye over FLR. If FLR works better for us than any other regional we will most likely be coming. We don't want to have Back to back regional's like we did this year, so if what we want makes us have back to back then FLR is a perfect plan B.

Though, unlike all the other Canadian teams, we don't live as close to Rochester as them. We live right across from Detroit, so we have to travel up to Niagara (4 ish hours) to cross the border. then make our way to rochester. I think the trip is 6 hours, which to us is average. 2012 we traveled a total of 56 hours (there and back), that was Smoky Mountains, GTR west, Queen City, and St.Louis, Thank gosh one of our sponsors supplies us with vehicles and gas.

Originally Posted by dodar

Orlando or South Florida would love to have some of our brothers from Canadia come down to visit. And I bet your students would love to get out of the cold weather and into the warm weather of The Sunshine State.

Haha ! I'll Mention it to our mentors, but a 24 hour drive (literally 24 hours for us) or a plane ride wouldn't really go well with them. If you ever wanted to come up to the "Great White North" and compete with some amazing teams (like 1114, 2056, 188, 610, 1503 etc...) and help us try and defeat 1114 and 2056, that would be amazing!

[Tetraman]

Originally Posted by akoscielski3

I love FLR! We have gone to FLR in the past (2007, and 2009). I went in 2009 when my brother was on the team (my rookie year as a member was 2010). I know we were talking about going to it, I'm not sure why we "decided" (haven't really decided yet) Buckeye over FLR. If FLR works better for us than any other regional we will most likely be coming. We don't want to have Back to back regional's like we did this year, so if what we want makes us have back to back then FLR is a perfect plan B.

Rochestarians would love to see 772 come back to FLR!

174 is going to FLR, obviously. After the great success we had last season, we hope to continue it and make a run for a 4th FLR title. For our second regional, we are probably going back to DC, but that can change. Talks of the other two locations of Buckeye or Boston have been had. If I could choose, I'd take the Warriors to DC, so much fun and a great host of teams to challenge ourselves.

256's future depends on how much funding we can do this fall.

In the perfect world, 2 regionals + Champs, but if we're lucky we'll be going to:

Silicon Valley Regional

FIRST Championships (pre-registering, but qualifying would also be nice)

[akoscielski3]

Originally Posted by Tetraman

Rochestarians would love to see 772 come back to FLR!

Well if we have so many people interested in having us come back I'm sure we will consider coming back

And by the way, Leeland, Karthik was MCing in 2009 when I went

[avanboekel]

2338 will be at Midwest for sure. We haven't decided on our second event as it depends on the specific weekends each of the events are on.

[MattC9]

Originally Posted by rachelholladay

We always go to the Bayou - its our home.
I'd love to go another regional and we are seriously looking towards Texas. Personally, Im favoring a visit to Alamo, but we will see what happens.

Yes Alamo is great!!!
We are going to Alamo and we are looking into going to orlando!

[Rangel]

This year 842 is really trying to gun it this year. Provided we raise enough money we want to go to 3 regionals. Right now we are thinking week 1 Alamo, Week 4 Arizona, and Week 6 Central Valley provided the regionals are the same weeks as last year and they are probably not.

[Koko Ed]

We always do FLR and championships.

[gracie.]

You'll certainly see us at Buckeye this year- it's our home!!
If the money works, it's a toss up between Queen City and Pittsburgh for a second regional. QCR was amazing this year, we would all love to come back.
If the money is INSANELY AWESOME we might try for champs.