East Coast, West Coast, and Midwest FIRST

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I was thinking that same thing as M. Agreeing with most everything said above, there isn't much left for me to post without repeating what has already been said.

When we travelled all the way out west to the Seattle regional this year, I was able to notice a lot of these differences. I also think that a lot of the teams there noticed our difference being from the East. I think they were able to notice our increased competitiveness and such. We always had people crowding in our pit checking us out -- at the Manchester regional it almost seems as if teams try to check out from a distance -- almost trying not to show TOO much interest. All the western teams were very welcoming and most would love to have us back, whereas there were a few teams I think that did not like our competitiveness and more or less made comments that we should tone it down, or take it easy.

Hmm, this is quite an interesting discussion indeed.