11:53 PM Sunday, checked and it is full up.
I haven’t checked all weekend and now see this morning every region is closed!! Amazing!
12 regions next year 
If more regions are added I imagine the cost per entry will have to go up, which would probably also help keep the numbers down. If prices get much higher I’ll likely reduce the number of entries I submit
wow, it would seem likely there’s a lot of unmet demand here (I didn’t enter but considered it - definitely next year!), but I wonder how much more growth can they have and still finish the final round in 1 day?!?
hopefully I can at least steward in Seattle and watch the Masters at work. 8) Can’t wait!
cheers–
–Michael
If it grows too much, they’ll have to break the first rounds into regions, then a semi-final round, then the finals. March Madness of Homebrewing. Can you imagine what that bracket would look like? ;D
I would think it would have to get bigger and go more rounds. otherwise how quickly you can get to your computer at entry time will begin to play as big a part in who wins finals as how good your beer is. or go the mcab route and have other contests act as qualifiers.
That’s definitely a concern. People also ask about increasing the number of first round judging centers, but we can barely find enough judges for the number that exist now.
That’s been discussed and unanimously voted down by the Governing Committee as being to exclusive.
Should make for an awesome selection show. Paint an awesome Anthony Davis-style unibrow on #1 seed Gordon Strong, with us lowly #16 seeds just happy with our play-in game. ;D
Hopefully some place like Tulsa can host the 1st round next year. FOAM has experience with big competitions. Dallas didn’t work with proximity to Bluebonnet, but March/April isn’t anywhere near the FOAM Cup timeframe.
cheers–
–Michael
Saw Gordon at a the WEB competition judging this past weekend. Someone asked if he had entries in the NHC, and he smilled and shook his head no. At least that is what I remember.
I think both Gordon and JZ have decided that they’re done entering.
Gordon told me he was done, and I don’t imagine JZ has the time for homebrewing any more.
JZ is pro and this is an amateur comp. Although, JZ’s beers have really never tasted amateurish.
Pros can enter as long as they brew the beer at home like the rest of us.
Another question. It looks like in the “View/Change/Print Entries” section of the entry form you could change to a totally different beer category. If a beer isn’t aging the way you’d like, can you switch to something else after you already declared the style when registering? And if it is aright, do you have up until the last day (March 28th) to make the decision?
You can change the style, but I think you have to reprint the labels for your bottles, so you have to do it before you ship.
Were you planning to change beers AFTER you ship? 
Got lucky this year. There’s a drop-off less than a hour from my house. Guess I have until next Wednesday to make the decision?
Re-brewed an American Brown based on the score sheet from a local competition. Scored 36 there, but have high hopes for the new version. Still have to keg and bottle. 
Ha. I guess I misread that as changing the style category he was entering the beer in, not changing the actual beer.
Actually . . . both. :o
And the big question for next year:
Can you just grab a bunch of spots in categories not requiring a lot of detail and then sort out what you’re actually going to enter later?