That would mean we'd qualify as national champions of 2001!
Cool!
I like the idea of looking at
"What do we want out of the Championship event?
What were the good values in past years' Championship event?
How do we incorporate the Championship event into the future FIRST?
How can FIRST make everyone happy, while keeping the event realistic?"
It's wonderfully exciting to go to nationals, and I want a way to enable some teams who "haven't won something" to go.
I haven't a clue how to go about that tho.
*brainstorming - which means not set in concrete just let the mind come up with whatever crazy ideas in order for the cream of the crop idea to come to the surface*
What if one team from each state, region, could somehow qualify to go because of a unique characteristic, like
"Heh. You guys got to type in the address of your school and it was there. Terraserver didn't know where it was. I had to start at the county seat ~30 miles away and follow the road there"
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or a native Alaskan team, an all girls' team, competed on the smallest budget, worked the hardest to earn their money...