Hardest Regional

[nukelear1991]

I think West Michigan is the hardest regional...at least in the midwest...because the indiana/iilinois/michigan combo of engineering big wig companies sponsoring them. I think the midwest is one of the best places to participate in FIRST because of the Delphi and GM plus like Wildstang has Motorola there are just a lot of amazing teams...like one of my faves

Wo-Bot lol


No but seriously I think west mich. takes it

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by nukelear1991

I think West Michigan is the hardest regional...at least in the midwest...because the indiana/iilinois/michigan combo of engineering big wig companies sponsoring them. I think the midwest is one of the best places to participate in FIRST because of the Delphi and GM plus like Wildstang has Motorola there are just a lot of amazing teams...like one of my faves

Wo-Bot lol


No but seriously I think west mich. takes it

Historically that may have been true. But this year West Michigan is Michigan only so no 71, or 111 or 45 or any other outside Michigan teams.

Jessica makes a good point, the new control system will shake things up, a lot. Also, the economy's tanking will have a negative effect on all of us.

[swamp_child]

Florida

[lenny8]

Originally Posted by sovierr

I would say that the hardest regionals to win will be the first week ones. I say this because the teams will need to keep their sanity through all the field issues and control problems with the new systems.

yea i have to agree with this one. new control,strategy on the spot, not going to be easy but thats the beauty of first there's always a way

[Raumiester2010]

Originally Posted by IKE

The Michigan State Championship will be quite competitive as it will be the first event calling for qualification. It will also be an end of season event which are always more competitive. Lastly teams will have 2 events under their belts.

I will second Cory's response though that wherever 1114 is, it will be tough to win.

Definitely gonna third both IKE and Cory's response in saying the the Michigan Championships will be killer! And i wish good luck to both 1114 and whoever faces them (they will need it)

[Akash Rastogi]

Since the season is nearing completion...its safe to say that the MI Championship is insane.

[lenny8]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

Since the season is nearing completion...its safe to say that the MI Championship is insane.

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[miscall]

I'm going to say the CT regional. A lot of really good teams, such as 126, 1124, 1100, 20, and 175, compete in this regional. Also, a lot of the founding teams of FIRST compete there. Roughly 60 teams compete each year, which is a lot of competition for the winner's banner.

Since that is the only regional I go to I might be biased, but after watching webcasts of other regionals and while their matches are good, they pale in comparison to the matches seen here in CT.

[Aren_Hill]

aaaannnddd.....midwest, two previous world champs, beast, bomb squad wildstang...yeah.....

[cpeister]

Originally Posted by Raumiester2010

Definitely gonna third both IKE and Cory's response in saying the the Michigan Championships will be killer! And i wish good luck to both 1114 and whoever faces them (they will need it)

Agreed, wherever 1114 is, it is tough.

[Ty Tremblay]

I agree that the Michigan State Championships may be the toughest competiton in FRC. But it is not the toughest regional. That would have to go to BAE. It's by far the toughest first week regional, and has the same, if not more competition than CT. But at BAE, teams haven't had 4+ weeks to revise...

[Aren_Hill]

Originally Posted by Ty Tremblay

That would have to go to BAE. It's by far the toughest first week regional,

Another post to defend midwest, week one with the biggest names in attendance

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Ty Tremblay

But it is not the toughest regional. That would have to go to BAE. It's by far the toughest first week regional, and has the same, if not more competition than CT. But at BAE, teams haven't had 4+ weeks to revise...

Key words, first week. Vegas has to take some share this year. When half the bracket goes to three matches to advance, save for one of the QFs in that side, and the one QF set has a very close match, you know it's tough. Or how about when 254 is eliminated before the finals...

[big1boom]

I'm gonna have to say Midwest is an insane regional.

Michigan State Championship doesn't really count as a regional... If it did, then it would be the hardest regional.

[Jonathan Norris]

Originally Posted by Cory

The answer the last 3 years would be any regional that 1114 attends.

I would have to agree with you there Cory, 1114 hasn't made GTR any easier over these last couple years. Consistently GTR is one of the hardest regionals to win, especially when we used to get more American teams attending. Just look back to 06 when it was a super-regional, that was a tough regional to compete in, you had the triplets, the three world champs (296, 217, 522), all the very competitive Canadian teams, and good American teams like 4, 45, 65, 229, 703 and more. That was the hardest regional I've ever competed in.

Looking at this year so far in regional registration, Midwest is looking really strong again, Florida is always a good battle, California has strong regionals, GTR will be tough again. Its hard to know, because you never know who is going to surprise this year and come up with a great approach to the new game, but there are certainly some tough regionals out there that will match up the best teams against each other and provide some thrilling matches to watch.