Are 8 play regional reasonable?

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Originally Posted by Jaci

From my view, 8 matches to prove yourself is too few.
Here in Australia, most teams (mine included) only get 8 matches to prove ourselves and qualify for a shot at Championships (excluding chairmans of course). 8 matches. That's it. We can't split into events per state since there's not enough teams yet, with many teams competing in our regional coming from Taiwan and China..

Australia is a big country, there is currently only 1 regional, which is a week three event which is located in Sydney, on the otherside of the country from teams like 5333,5663 and 4788. For those teams to come to the regional in Sydney the only option is to fly as it is a 4000km(2500 mile) journey by road. Australia is roughly the same size as the USA, so it would be like travelling from the West Coast to New York to attend a regional, and flights are quite expensive because of this. Currently the other nearest regional is Hawaii and a few Australian teams attend, this year team 3132 competed at Northern Lights, and will compete at the Australian Regional and Hawaiian Regional in the coming weeks and team 4613 is competing at the Australian Regional and then the Western Canada Regional