FRC Blogged-Frank Answers...Monday?

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by JustbeingJFK

I wonder what international teams will do because of the new district models. When we competed at WPI, Another team named the Griffins were at our hotel. They are an American school in London. They went to that regional because it was one of the closet regionals to them. Hopefully, them and other teams in the same situation can be able to find another competition to go to.

Good point. Eventually the district system will catch up to them but hopefully FRC can grow in Europe to support a regional. Right now there are two teams in England: 759 & 1884. 759 has competed every year at the New York City Regional starting in 2002 and 1884 has competed mainly in the Northeast region in the past few years but their earlier years brought them to places like Texas and Florida.

It is sad to New England closing its doors as we have welcomed teams from Australia, Brazil, Mexico, England, and Canada over the years! Hope to see you guys at the Championship and maybe in a few years we can travel to their regionals/districts. Very excited to hear that Mexico is having their first regional and maybe we will see a return of the Brazilian regional!