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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
VCU 2007, once again the largest regional in FIRST (66 teams!!!)
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Never been there myself. I hope the venue can accomodate the crowd.
42 or 48 teams seems like the optimal number to me. Multiples of six are good so some teams don't end up playing extra qualifying matches as surrogates.
I've been to every
St. Louis Regional, starting with the first one in 2002. Also to Midwest in 1997 and 2004, Buckeye in 2005, Waterloo in 2006, and the Championship in 1996, 2003, and 2005. And I went to IRI in 2006, which was more fun than most of the official FRC events I've attended.
Of course I prefer St. Louis because these are the people I work with season after season. This year should be especially good, because many of our local area teams are maturing into competitive forces now, and we will be hosting several very good visiting veteran teams: 45, 148, 217, and dozen or so others that are also very good, if not quite as famous.
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21-01-2007, 20:07
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