Wanna ask why...

[Koko Ed]

You think it's bad now? What happens when new regionals are made? They're not going to expand the season. They're just going to pile the regionals up in the five week window. It's going to reach double digits.
What's really going to happen is the regionals are truly going to become more regional.

[Ryan Dognaux]

I have heard that it's based on when the venues can be booked. For example, for the Boilermaker Regional, we can use the Armory here at Purdue because it's during our spring break. Midwest could probably only get their venue on the same weekend as well. I do wish that they were on seperate weekends, but I think Ed is right. Teams are going to have to really pick and choose to go to which regionals they want, and most will pick the ones closest to home. That's why BMR was loaded with Indiana teams and Midwest was full of Illinois and Michigan teams.

[Jessica Boucher]

Kevin is right in that there are a bunch of reasons that decide when a regional is slated.

Dean once stated that he would like to see a regional in every state. This is alinged with his desire to put FIRST in every high school; you are going to have to have state tournaments. This is the price we pay for growth, but I would not necessarily call it a bad thing. Moving regionals towards a more limited availability will shorten the amount of time a team has to take off from school, it will drive growth of off-season competitions.

I would like to one day see a sattelite link between the chunk of events in a weekend to increase interactivity between the events.