Most Stacked Regionals ever

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard

2008 FLR was a pretty stacked event, with all the usual Rochester powerhouses, like 1507, 1126, 378, 191, 424 (GRR's second team) who were all excellent that year, 67 (an Einstein machine) and 68 coming from Michigan, 365 coming from MAR, 1503 coming in from Canada, and 20 coming from the capital region.
67 and 424 paired up, losing in the semifinals. 1507 and 365 teamed up and also lost in the semifinals. 1126 had one the highest OPRs of 2008 and lost in finals.

The advent of districts all around New York has limited the outsiders that come to the event now, but it still attracts some stiff competition, with 2056 and 217 coming in 2011, 1592 and 801 coming in 2014, and teams from Canada, Ohio, NYC, and Long Island regularly making the event hella competitive.

We even had an all star team of MCs at the event. Our MC in attendance Steve Warren lost his voice due to going to Laserquest (the oil based smoke made him cough so much he ended up losing his voice). Fortunately we had many options available to choose from. john V. Neun was there with 229. Karthik and Paul Copioli brave a nasty snowstorm to attend and we even had the previous year's MC Ellery Wong there with my team. Steve was even able to make a comeback to help John MC the finals.