Pennsylvania 2009

[binary010101]

Umm... There's always stress when it comes to any major competition.

[crabnebula143]

im not nervous about competing at regionals, im nervous about making the team, i agree w/ paradoxgirl
but if i makethe teem 4 states i will b realllllllllly nervous/anxious.

[eyeball138]

even thought regionals is ridic easy...

I'm not exactly sure what you mean? If something is easy does it mean you shouldn't try? Are you expecting to get first in all of your events? I'm not really sure why you'd say this. Sure, states and nationals and even some invitationals are better competition then regionals, but there are still a number of good teams in our region. (Bala Cynwyd, Welsh Valley, Strath Haven, and Unami.)

[binary010101]

Our region is okay, I guess, with Whitehall, Fleetwood, Exeter, Emmaus, and Wilson. I can't say that it's the toughest region, though.

[crabnebula143]

compared 2 solon(the invites we went 2), reg. is ridiculously easy. that doesn't mean ull come in 1st, it just means u hav a really good change of medaling + an eccelent chance of going 2 states. the tests are wayyy harder at solon/states/nats. regs, is by far the easiest competition.

personally, reg. isn't about coming in 1st/2cnd, its about going 2 states (which means coming in top10 overall, which isnt that hard since the test are relativeley easy). once u go 2 states, than it reallly matters, cuz nats are involved.

[eyeball138]

I do mostly agree with that, I guess. It's true that all that regionals does matter is making it to states. After that, anything can happen. However, from my experiences, I have not found regionals tests to be necessarily easier than other competitions. For instance, last year the regionals Road Scholar test was more difficult than the states one. Also, when I have taken practice nationals tests, they are sometimes more difficult, but sometimes they are actually easier than regionals tests.

[crabnebula143]

in general, reg. tests r so much eesier than states/nats/soloninvite. tests. it also depends on wut u no.

[EastStroudsburg13]

Our region is okay, I guess, with Whitehall, Fleetwood, Exeter, Emmaus, and Wilson. I can't say that it's the toughest region, though.

Our region is also respectable, with Stroudsburg, JT Lambert (where I went ), Greater Nanticoke, and Wyoming Area. I can't really say about C, but Athens, Stroudsburg, and Wyoming Area are good.

[eyeball138]

in general, reg. tests r so much eesier than states/nats/soloninvite. tests. it also depends on wut u no.

That might be the reason for the regionals test being harder than the states one. I might just have known everything better for states. Once again, I would not say regionals tests are so much easier than other tests.

In regards to competition in regions, I think that SW and NE are best for B, but SE is clearly best for C.

[EastStroudsburg13]

What about SE for B? I think your region is the most competitive of the 6 in both divisions.