More than One Regional?

[smurfgirl]

After reading posts about teams like 1114 and 1024 which won 2 and 3 regionals, respectively, I'm wondering how many regionals most teams attend each year. How many does your team attend?

We're a sixth-year team, and for all six years, we've only attended one regional (the once UTC New England, now Connecticut Regional). We started going to the Championship Event our fourth year (2006). After winning this regional for the third consecutive year, we're starting to think about broadening our horizons.

With this, I have some questions:

• Why does your team choose to/not to attend multiple regionals?

For teams that attend more than one regional,

• What is that experience like?
• Is it worth the extra expense in time and money?
• Do you send the entire team to both/all regionals? If not, how do you determine who goes where?
• How far apart (weeks) do you like to space your regionals?
• Do you do multiple regionals and the Championship Event?

Thanks for the input!


(I apologize if a post like this already exists- I searched, but I didn't find any similar posts. Also, none of the more specific forums fit as a place to post this from what I can see- the mods are welcome to move it if they see fit.)