2009 Dallas Regional

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by Amanda Morrison

That aside, if we can bring back some of the defunct FRC teams from the area, it'd be great. Even so, it looks like there are 11 Texas FRC teams for which this event will be closer than the Houston event, and it will be closer for 12 of the teams total that went to Houston last year. There's 39 OK teams, 1 AR team, and 2 LA teams that will find Dallas closer than Houston.

What do you think the regional capacity might be? Especially with the draw of a new regional, 148 might want to invite some of our friends from the north to come compete.

Remember that the Dallas regional isn't even guaranteed to grab those 11 closer teams. The vast majority of teams can only afford to attend one regional, and a surprising number of Texas teams depend on Houston Robotics grants to attend LSR. I'm not 100% certain how that's going to play out with a second Texas regional, but I'd be surprised if the grant didn't mandate LSR attendance. So unless Dallas can offset that, you'll probably still see teams driving right through DFW to get to Houston.

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

From looking at the Regional listing -

OKC had 39 with one opening
LSR had 46 and was full. I'm not sure how different that has been at Reliant.
Bayou had 46 with 8 openings.
So - Bayou had 54 slots available...

LSR had 52 teams in 2007. I'd guess capacity for 2009 would be 52+ teams. Possibly a lot more depending on how the venues work out.

As for the Dallas regional, based on the rumors I'm hearing for the venue, the arena floor is going to be even smaller than it was at LSR this year. I'd guess 36 teams max unless they have plans for pits outside the arena proper.