**FIRST EMAIL**/Important Seattle Regional Registration Information

[Mark McLeod]

Greetings Teams:

Again this year due to some wonderful recruiting efforts by our Washington state local committee and the availability of Washington state grants, we have a very large number of new teams in the State of Washington. These grants require the teams to participate in their home state regional as first option. So, in order to satisfy both the grant conditions as well as the needs and wishes of our out of state teams, we have devised a phased registration approach as follows.

During initial event registration the Seattle Regional will be open only to teams from Washington state, thus allowing the new grant teams to get registered and meet the grant requirements. Then, when second registration opens, all other teams will have the opportunity to register for remaining spots. We know that this will be a disappointment to many out of state teams, who might want to register for Seattle as their first event. However, please know we are doing everything to expedite the registration of Washington teams to be able to release any open spots as soon as possible. Also, please consider other Regionals including Oregon, Sacramento, Colorado and our new event in Salt Lake City as great alternative places to play.
We thank you in advance for you support and understanding as we work through the challenges some of our new, and unexpected, opportunities bring.

Go Teams!

[Bob Steele]

At this point the Seattle Regional does not appear to be open to ANY teams
As a Washington team I cannot sign up for it either...
Someone needs to explain what Washington teams are supposed to do today...

I just got an email from Deb Mumm-Hill and Washington teams should Waitlist their teams for the Microsoft Seattle Regional if that is their first choice.

Spread the word to teams that don't get on CD if you can!!!

R