Arizona Regionals

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There's just one Arizona Regional (it's in the Memorial Coliseum downtown, at the State Fair Grounds), and it's simply amazing. Half of the teams in attendance are usually from Arizona while the other half is made up of alot of California teams, a few New Mexico, Nevada, and Colorado teams, the team from Mexico, usually 1 or 2 teams from Canada, and a few other places (234 is the most frequent non-west coast team that attends, along with 96).

There is always a team social Friday night at the Arizona Science Center where we get food and can go look at all the exhibits for free. There's no food at the venue so most teams eat lunch outside in the parking lot (last year team 1324 put on a barbecue on Saturday for teams, it got rained on as we had our first rain in 140 days but the regional was nice and let us move it inside).

I've had the chance to attend the Arizona Regional since it started (2003), and I have yet to see a year it was disappointing.