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Originally Posted by jvriezen
P.S. Go tell the high school [Foot|Base|Basket]Ball team that you are complaining because you have to play on two or three different fields with different refs! I don't think they'll have much sympathy for you as they play on numerous fields throughout their season and post-season.
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IMO, thats a pretty weak comparison. We already play on different fields with different refs during the season if you go to more than one events. If my high school team got the chance to play in the Championship game at Camp Randall Stadium (home of the Badgers) and payed thousands of dollars in registration, travel and hotels (for the team, family, friends and fans), but found out the game would be played in some park with bleachers set up, I'm pretty sure there would be some complaining, especially if no one knew why the location changed.
Even if you don't consider FIRST teams to be FIRST's customers, you need to understand that FIRST needs us just as much as we need FIRST. They should do everything possible to please us (which I think they are for the most part), because without us, there is no FIRST Robotics.
That being said, I have faith in FIRST to make the Championship in St. Louis just as good, if not better than it was in Atlanta. Of course there will be some changes--some will be for the worst, but others will be for the best.