Quality of Regionals

[Cory]

While having a discussion with a friend on another team during SVR, we were talking about the level of competition, which we thought was significantly lower than in 2003 and previous years.

We hypothesized that this was because of the increasing number of regionals per year, which was distilling the quality of competition between events. For example, before Sacramento, Arizona, and Colorado had regionals, all those teams would have likely gone to SVR or Socal, instead, there's now more teams spread out among regionals.

I do think that more regionals are a good thing, but has anyone else noticed a lower level of competition throughout any of the regional events?

Cory