Time for a BBQ (Hardest Regional 2010 Edition)

[Andrew Schreiber]

Now, it seems every year we have a debate about what is the hardest regional. Billfred proposed that we use the BBQ or the SAUCE methods. As you can guess generating the data by hand is tedious so through the wonders of SQLite and Python I generated the BBQ for every regional. I modified the definition of BBQ slightly though, it is all of the awards that give blue banners that a team has won since 2006 (4 years ago).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrew_...83693/sizes/l/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrew_...42062/sizes/l/ (Warning, obscenely LONG)
Here the data is as .png images. I have the PDF files available on demand and will gladly provide the SQLite database in either its native format or as a CSV file.

Now, this is just in the interest of fun. As we all know, past success does not assure future results. Generally it is a good indicator but anything can happen. Enjoy.

EDIT: Just to be clear, this is from FIRST's data. If it is wrong I can't do much about it. Plus, realistically being off by an award or two will only mildly affect the overall results. I will rerun these numbers later so we have it updated more (unless registration is done.)