[Mastonevich]

I want to commend team 2471 for picking two other teams who had not punched their tickets. That has to be one of the top acts of gracious professionalism I have heard of.

There is nothing stopping any team from attending more than one regional. As with anything in life it takes hard work to make it happen. If that is a lesson that FIRST teaches, we should embrace it.

The motto should be how do we get to be like those teams? Not, that is unfair and we should bring them down.

All that said the disparity between the top and bottom seems to be growing. It would not surprise me if FIRST tries to address this in the future.