Is competing at multiple regionals REALLY fair ?

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I think a lot of the reason that this thread is so interesting is the number of teams this year that qualified for championship at more than one regional, thus limiting the number of teams that qualified for championship. I see no problem whatsoever with teams competing at more than one regional, but perhaps FIRST should implement a procedure to fill the spot that may be lost to a repeating winner by another highly seeded team at that competition. Just a thought that might let the teams still compete together and still give teams hope for earning a spot to championship.

As for the fairness of going to multiple regionals, the only issue that I have is that some regionals will save spots for local teams, allowing them to register for other regionals while having a spot secured at home. This seems to cause problems when teams cannot get into other regionals. Since this is not a practice at every regional, it unbalances the system.