2015 SBPLI Long Island Regional

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by Brian C

This event seems to have evolved into a popular Regional to attend for many teams. It has also evolved into on of the more competitive ones as well. I know that the folks at SBPLI have been working VERY hard behind the scenes for quite a few years to make this happen.

I was pleasantly surprised and humbled on Thursday when team 1156, Under Control from Brazil told me that they consider this to be their "home" Regional. They went on to win the Chairman's Award on Saturday so their statement was well in advance of that occurrence.

3 teams from outside the US - Brazil, Canada and Israel brought a nice International flavor to the Regional. It's always great to see teams who want to come here to compete and to get their perspective on things.

The term I heard most from all the teams over the course of the Competition was the fact that this Regional had a "comfortable" and traditional Regional feel to it. Over the course of the Regional every team I spoke with mentioned the family atmosphere and the fact that all the teams and volunteers went out of their way to help each other.

Some of the teams from both the US and abroad were pleasantly surprised by this. We look forward to seeing them return in the future along with others.

We will hopefully be able to attend next year. Its cheaper for us to go to NYC and sbpli is the same weekend as the show so we lose a lot of members. The real thing I was impressed with was the fact that they managed 10x10 pits this year.