This topic comes up every year as Regionals approach. I decided to take a little more in-depth look at this question by doing a quick analysis of the State Meet Results. I scored the meet by Region, two different ways. In the first, I did a straight-forward 10-8-6-4-2-1 meet scoring. In the second, I did a 16-15-14-13-12, etc. scoring, which allows a 7th place finisher to count more toward his or her region's strength than a 16th place finisher.

                     10-8-6-4-2-1            16-15-14-13-12-etc.
Class A Girls        Region 4 - 196          Region 4 - 738
                     Region 2 - 145          Region 2 - 713
                     Region 1 - 144          Region 1 - 593
                     Region 3 - 73           Region 3 - 334

Class AA Girls       Region 1 - 282.50       Region 1 - 859.50
                     Region 2 - 147.50       Region 2 - 715
                     Region 4 - 107          Region 4 - 535.50
                     Region 3 -  23          Region 3 - 371

Class AAA Girls      Region 4 - 204          Region 4 - 772
                     Region 2 - 162          Region 2 - 742.50
                     Region 1 - 157          Region 1 - 691
                     Region 3 -  35          Region 3 - 347.50

Class A Boys         Region 4 - 227          Region 4 - 769
                     Region 2 - 202          Region 2 - 740.50
                     Region 1 -  84          Region 1 - 502
                     Region 3 -  47          Region 3 - 412.50

Class AA Boys        Region 4 - 202          Region 1 - 736
                     Region 1 - 191          Region 2 - 670
                     Region 2 - 132          Region 4 - 580.50
                     Region 3 -  33          Region 3 - 437.50

Class AAA Boys       Region 2 - 225          Region 2 - 746
                     Region 1 - 143          Region 4 - 653
                     Region 4 - 117          Region 1 - 623
                     Region 3 -  73          Region 3 - 459