2009 Washington D.C. Regional

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Pavan Dave

Meh. I think this regional was strategically placed with the busy congressman in mind so they couldn't use the excuse "we were in Washington" or "we were busy". This is another way of turning in LATE homework that Dean collected a few years back (2007).

More likely it was strategically placed in one of the densest regions of FIRST teams in the country. There are 58 teams in Virginia, 27 in Maryland, and 6 in DC (going to grow). Both the Chesapeake and VCU events are in at least the upper 50s (usually 60s) every year. They don't have much room for new teams, so logically another venue had to be opened to attempt to take some of the capacity.
I'm willing to bet a majority of the Fairfax county teams (116, 611, 612, 614, 617, 623, 2186) will be there next year.