As of wednesday, april 10th, the Verizon wireless arena in Manchester,NH, will hold the 2003 new england regional.
BAE SYSTEMS will be sponsoring the event with the support of 151 and 166.
Badjokeguy
FINALLY, FIRST IS BACK WHERE IT BELONGS!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
(so much for retirement)
cya next year,
Andy Grady =)
FIRST is back where it orginally started…AND I CAN GO WATCH THIS TIME!!! CAUSE I WORK THERE!!! WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
So that makes 19 regionals next year?
- Arizona
- BAE
- Buckeye
- Canada
- GLR
- J&J
- KSC
- LA
- Lone Star
- MMR
- NYC
- Philly
- San Jose
- SBPLI
- Seattle
- SLR
- UTC
- VCU
- WMR
No…no more UTC…
Didn’t Deano say something in Cleveland about NASA switching em up a little too? Sponsoring a new regional for 1 year, then moving on?
~JVN
I suppose that we could get close to 25 regionals next year.
Really.
I think that FIRST has pretty much decided to base its future growth strategy on recruiting teams in and around regional cities.
In order to get 30-40% growth, they need to keep getting 30-40% more regionals. That would mean 5-7 NEW regionals in 2003. Is it possible? I suppose yes.
Where else would you put such regionals?
How about these cities:
Minneapolis
Madison or Milwaukee
Indianapolis
Pittsburg
New Orleans
Huntsville, AL (another NASA city)
Miami
Atlanta (can you say, “Coke”?)
Memphis
Buffallo or Niagra or Rochester
Denver
Salt Lake City
Windsor, Ontario*
Montreal, Quebec
Vancouver, British Columbia
That should get us through 2004 anyway.
I can hardly wait.
Joe J.
*Yes, I know that Windsor is just accross from Detroit and that it is not that far from Toronto – but it has a LOT of auto industry suppliers and it is in Canada which will draw a different set of teams AND Detroit needs a second regional anyway – this is a good way to relieve some of the pressure on the Great Lakes Regional without actually having a regional in Detroit, drawing corporate support away from the GLR.
Were we allowed to release our regional yet? Since its already been said it will take place on April 4th and 5th so mark your calenders! The word i have recieved from reliable sources is that as of a month ago FIRST was planning on holding 22 regionals next year!
How about an Upstate NY Regional?
C’mon, make someone else travel for once 
NASA Goddard is supposedly working on one to be held at the Naval Academy in Anapolis, MD
Also, the KSC regional will NOT be at KSC next year. Looks like it will move somewhere else in central/north florida.
That’s totally unofficial, but it’s one of the main goals of our team: A regional in Brazil. Very unlikely to start in 2003, likely to go in 2004. 
Of course we all know that most of the teams would have to be local, but would american/canadian teams fly all the way down here to compete?
(By the way, I read a release from team 22 stating that they were contacting people to start a team in Colombia - is it true? Someone from the team to confirm this)
*Originally posted by Pamela *
**Were we allowed to release our regional yet? Since its already been said it will take place on April 4th and 5th so mark your calenders! The word i have recieved from reliable sources is that as of a month ago FIRST was planning on holding 22 regionals next year! **
Yea, you’re probably right. I remember Dean saying that there are already 22 regionals that are definite for next year.
How about a regional in boston
FIRST wanted the BAE one to either be in Boston or Worchester when we started trying to get it approved but we got it in Manchvegas so i doubt there will be a Boston one next year!
MANCHVEGAS BABY!!! I work at the Verizon Wireless…wahoooo…maybe I’ll get like secret backstage passes…lol…or maybe I’ll just end up serving food like I usually do…lol…OR MAYBE I’M JUST GOING TO GO!!!
The Calender is already marked off!!!
Hey! We (still) need more! We need like 35. (Hey, the more-the merrier :p) Mabye 1 in Pureto Rico (sp?) They are close, and I think they may have enough industry to support some teams. They are close enough, too, to Florida, and that whole southern region. Mabye 1 in Nevada… Ooooohhhhh, i can see it now. Dean riding on a Las Vegas street w/ a neon Segway, lol!!
HEY! A NEON SEGWAY!!! The 1st segway desiged for Las Vegas. Hahahaha, Dean riding a neon Segway, funny…
*Originally posted by Team238-aholic *
**No…no more UTC… **
As a 166 member who’s been in on this, I never heard that UTC was out of the question. BAE will be a Northern New England Regional as far as I know.
UTC has been such a huge supporter (and CT has so many teams) that I see little possibility of them withdrawing that regional.
Just a thought.
–Jordan
I’m glad to see FIRST returning to it’s hometown - although I love the UTC regional, nothing could compare to when I first started up in Manchester
But as Jordan said - I’m a litte curious about UTC. I thought it would come down to some serious financial problems for them to lose the NE regional at this point - so it makes me wonder if there is going to be an “Upper New England” and a “Lower New England”… but then to me, with Long Island AND New York City not that far away, it does seem to be a bit of overkill.
Personally, I’d like to see on in Tennessee or Kentucky so some teams can get a foothold out here… and so I don’t need to drive 8 hours to the nearest competition next year
*Originally posted by Joe Johnson *
**I suppose that we could get close to 25 regionals next year.
Salt Lake City
Windsor, Ontario
Montreal, Quebec
Vancouver, British Columbia
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Of the Canadian cities mentioned I would expect the most likely to probably be one out in BC - Got eastern/central Canada with the Toronto one…Out west would make sense.
If not out in BC, probably montreal…Altho then first would have to deal with all the bi-lingual crap in Quebec…Altho I wouldn’t put it past them.
I don’t see one happening in Windsor - Toronto and the GLR are both too close, I think they want to see big regionals as well as a lot of them…Sticking one in windsor would definately take teams away from the GLR and Toronto (esp since each regional costs a team $4000…We’re not all rich ;)).