Champinship Event in Canada

[jonathan lall]

Originally posted by Steve W
rumour has it that they are looking for a second regional in Canada. I believe that it is out west. No teams in the area YET but look how many we got when we got the Canadian regional for the first time. We are still growing.

Is that still going on? I thought Calgary was off... or is this elswhere?

Oh and don't come to Toronto. With all that SARS and all. Pfft.

[geo]

I thought it's over. I see more people on the street than one month ago.

[jonathan lall]

Err... I was kidding.

[J Flex 188]

actually.. lol.. believe it or not.. the toronto public school board..and some others i think that are also in ontario have had a moratorium on all international travel by any school. We had to finagle some special exemption for us to goto WMR = O

[Beth Sweet]

Originally posted by DanLevin247
I think it would be a cool idea, BUT, now almost every team would have to make some kind of border crossing, and that takes HUGE amounts of time to cross with a lot of people, not to mention lots of boxes of tools and supplies, flying is expensive as well....not to mention the currency change.

I think that he hit it right on the mark here. As cool and as fun as it would be to have the overall event in Canada, most of the teams are in the US and border crossing would just be one big pain in the rear. I rememeber one border crossing experience from our team with a foreign exchange student who didnt have all of the proper papers... anyways, it would just all end up being way too big of a hassle. Cool idea though!!!

[J Flex 188]

Originally posted by DanLevin247
I think it would be a cool idea, BUT, now almost every team would have to make some kind of border crossing, and that takes HUGE amounts of time to cross with a lot of people, not to mention lots of boxes of tools and supplies, flying is expensive as well....not to mention the currency change.

lol.. the currency change is still in your favour right now if it were to happen anyways (i tend not to agree with having the champs in Canada) it would save you money if the entry fee was in CAD

[Aaron Knight]

I don't think as many teams would go there.

I know from past experience that it can be a real pain for international stuff (our team went to the first Canadian Regional, in our first year, and had MAJOR problems getting through the mountains of paperwork that arose for shipping). And we were shipping from a border state, ~an hour and a half from the border.

Don't get me wrong, we all had a good time in Toronto/Missassaugua (sp?)....plus the currency exchange helped a bit while there ... but most of us the following year (this past season) not to bother because it was too much of a pain....

Aaron Knight
Graduating member of Team 891
Syracuse, NY
http://first891.topcities.com

[soezgg]

All I have to say is:


HAHAHA.....CANADA!!

BAHAHHAH












Actually Canada is cool, except for the fact that every time I'm up there I almost get hit by a $@#$@#$@#$@# car. Its like the people dont even know how to drive. They should stop their $@#$@#$@#$@# car, get out and salute every American standing in the road. Hows that for paying homage to their daddy.

Just kidding of course.

[Steve W]

Are you calling us bad drivers because we missed you? I guess we will need to take the Red, White and blue and form a circle to help us out. Come on back and say HI.

BTW - Canadian Regional still the best and we let any US teams in ( if they dare).

[Yan Wang]

I have to agree that the Canadian regional is very *good* and superbly organized. However, Steve and I were not happy at all when we were one of the 6 or 7 teams who had to have pits in the back room due to space shortage... well, the location was great (loooots of space and right next to machine shop... though that was loud) but the location also sucked because judges came by once and didn't do much in terms of spending time interviewing the teams.

Nonetheless, I've been to each Canadian Regional and I plan to make sure the teams keeps going every year it is in existence

Yeah... we do need a Canadian championship event... our town's so Canadian (not to reiterate Steve's point of bad drivers )

[kristen]

Hahah YEAAAAAAAAAAA Canada, everyones favorite regional!! (or SHOULD be)


... I want to go to philly next year .... rofl

[geo]

I am behalf of all Candians Teams say thank you(eh?!). We hope more American teams come next year.