Where do you submit Chairmans? Why?

[Dorienne]

Originally Posted by Kyle

I was wondering where other teams plan on submitting there Chairmans award and why they plan to submit there, are you doing it just because it is your "home" regional or because it is where you have had previous success? Also if you have to choose between more then one regional what makes one better over the other.

007 has been submitting theirs to the Chesapeake Regional since 2003, mainly because it is our home regional. We love it there, and we're well-known at the Regional, so we're confident in sending it there instead of a Regional we're hardly known at. We have not won Chairman's yet, but we are extremely confident that we will very soon.

We have not had the problem of choosing between one Regional over the other, but if we had to, we would look at the factors of being well-known, what teams are there, how many rookies there are, etc. It mostly depends on statistics...for me anyway. =)

[OZ_341]

I know on Team 341 we have a strong sense of HOME. We feel that we have two regional homes Philly and Chesapeake. Although I see nothing wrong with submitting to remote regionals, I think our team needs to feel a connection to the Regional they are submitting too.

We have been to Chesapeake all 3 years of its existence. We attend the Maryland State Fair Competition and volunteer there. We work closely with Mike Wade and Pete Baltzell for Ramp Riot and other off-season events.

I could be wrong about this, but I don't think the kids would ever want to submit somewhere that was not Philly or Chesapeake.