I know this challenge is coming really late/early depending on your perspective, but its never too early to plan to the future…but I’ve noticed how the west coast teams always challenge the east teams to come west and many of these teams that are financially able/permitted by schools/sponsors have met your challenege, so its time to put the ball in our court. I officially issue a challenge to west coast teams to bear the cold and come east to our regionals. You have a pretty nice selection of regionals from Midwest, Great Lakes, UTC, BAE, New Jersey, and even a few in Pennsylvania and Virginia/Maryland. So if you aren’t scared 
come and play with us.
bah, you forgot the warm, comfortable southeast Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina all have regionals too…
why would you go to the south when u can go to the northeast??? =)
But they already have the warm regionals of the west…I say come and freeze with the midwest/northeastern teams! 
Or better yet, why don’t you all suck it up and come to the real NORTH @ Canada baby!
Yeah, I was just thinking that it would be great if we could make it to one of y’all’s regionals. We are NOT one of those well funded teams, though. I don’t know how we could swing an east coast regional and championship in the same year. (Don’t you just love my optimism in assuming that we will qualify for the championships again next year?:D)
Rookie Regional next year welcomes all!!
Rochester, New York will host a regional next year
Rochester Regional 2005
I think I already gave 330 a personal invitation to come to Rochester next year…
Matt
I’d love to see a southern california or florida team come to BAE regionals and see how they handle the near artic temperatures (no offense)
I’m sure that my team would take up the offer of going to the west, well, if a west coast team would kindly lend us $7000
I would hardly consider New Hampshire Arctic in March… I gotta give my props to my cous out Wolverine Idaho where any exposed skins turns frostbite after 3 minutes. Now that is Arctic. Why I think I was wearing a long sleeve T-SHIRT!!! when I was at BAE Id like to see you do that out in the Rockies that time of the year
We already accepted the challenge and are going to the Canadian Regional this week. We hope to go to GR or somewhere and play with some of the big dogs.
Just like we would love to travel back east if an eastern team would kindly lend us $5,000.
there are a couple of big guns here already at CR =D.
cant wait! 22 comes tomorrow!
what i would like to see is some other teams make trips up to CR besides 48 and 639 and a couple of others. We can offer a great atmosphere, friendly people and lots to do to teams that are only within an 8 hour drive usually! of course this is much easier for teams in the NE, like 47, 71, 45 etc. but seriously, CR is the biggest regional this year and its sure to be one of the best 
I believe team 79 Krunch (Clearwater, FL) took a trip to either UTC or BAE a few years back and this year they went to colorado…i win! 
DJ i still remember a few years back when if the west/midwest coasted wanted to come to any regional they came east, I remember with detail, the little old rookie bot bullying the (quote from the teams advisor) “big scary chief delphi bot” in NJ that was the last year chief came to jersey, so let me make my challenge, i wanna see the self proclaimed big dogs head back east and show us “arogant east coasters” how to build bots
While everybody is going everywhere. Come to Kansas City in 2005. We’d be glad to have y’all using my best midwestern talk while mumbling about dorothy red shoes and munchkins. Hopefully it will spawn some new powerhouse midwestern teams.
Anyways look for the red shoes of 1108 at Houston and Atlanta.
In all fairness, I believe there is 1 thing you guys haven’t considered. A lot of west coast teams travel out east to go to the Championship event!
To most of you who are at Florida, Georgia, Houston, or the states close to the Championship events in the past, all you have to do is drive over and compete (I know that’s not true for everyone, some of you segway over since it came out, but bear with me here). Mean while, we pay 200-300 dollars per airplane ticket and travel across half, if not most all the way across the country just to compete with the rest of you. I think that deserve a little credit.
I think if we are to have a “challenge” setup, lets make it a fair one. I would consider team 22 Chatsworth high school going to Toronto, team 254 Cheesy Poofs going to Cleveland, and team 330 Beachbot / team 980 Thunder bot coming out to IRI at 02 and 03 meeting the challenge.
I would also consider team 835, and 859 coming out to Sacramento Regional, team 69, 815, 1187 coming to Southern California, and Chief Delphi coming to Silicon Valley Regional meeting the challenge.
Those are the teams that has to travel a long distance to championship event as well as going out of their way to a far away regional ;-).
How well do you Easterners know U.S. history? Members of the Donner party FROZE to death in CALIFORNIA in the 1800s; do you know what the survivors ate to stay alive? By the way, the Donner party consisted of Easterners. Maybe if they’d had better leadership, like someone with FIRST experience, they would have made wiser choices and avoided the history books. 
Anyway, I fractured my leg in November 2001 when I slipped on ICE in CALIFORNIA. We were hiking in the snow, just for fun. We had been on the trail over an hour when I slipped. We weren’t in an ice rink or a giant freezer; we were outside in real, natural, genuine SNOW. You know, freezing temperatures and all that.
The main reason my husband (ChrisH) hasn’t been skiing the last few years (skiing in SOUTHERN California) is because he’s been too busy with FIRST. Lots of Angelenos would ski more often if the lift lines weren’t so loooong…
Other than money, one of the reasons Team 330 hasn’t been East is that we’re too busy maintaining the FIRST presence locally…
–KarenH
I’m not scared of the regionals
the cold will intimidate me :ahh:
but the opportunity for adventure and meeting all you east coasters
I’ll weather it while 
grumbling
however it’s San Diego’s regional we’ll be doing 2005 * throws and runs away*
http://www.athropolis.com/p/pic-thro.gif .
Looks like I will just have to go back to Manchester kickoff 2005 so SOME west coast people are there. sigh