Most Competitive Regional

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well i suppose the tedency is to equate the winners of the championships with being the "best" teams in FIRST simply because there is no other way to measure them. No matter what anyone does, it would be impossible to compare team statistics and what not to form an idea of what really is the "best" team in the organisation. its the same thing you can see in amature sports. Still, id have to rank winning the championship as one of the best/if not only way to accurately see how good a team is. The problem with anything else lies only if you havent seen which teams are being compared to etc. video and hear-say can only get you so far.

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

I think it would be a mistake to equate winning the championship with being the best team

just as an aside.

while it might be true that a huge majority of engineering firms are located in the midwest, a team does not necessairly need them to be succesful. im going to use woburn as an example.. mostly cause i dont know any other team our primary sponsor is a bank and trust, with three or four mentors at one team, all former teachers @ woburn. and we took 2nd in canada, and 1st in west michigan. so im sure that having that tech base to work with is superb, but not necessairly a big reason for success.

edit: oops, used reply to thingy twice.