[Ken Leung]

I looked at the US FIRST page, there still isn't any OFFICIAL announcement regarding the location of the Championship Event 2003.

So, unless FIRST made any sort of official announcement, all statements made by non-FIRST staff are speculation and rumors, no matter how reliable their sources are.

We simply should not "announce" anything solid and accidentally make teams believe this is true and start making travel arrangements as soon as they see another "oh I have an inside source saying it will definitely be at...".

So, by keeping rumors and speculations in the threads brandon showed, people will know they are only that. We are not being really strict or anything, just that the discussions need to be organized and not spread into more than 5 threads. Easier for all the readers and posters to follow the discussion.

Besides, some of the threads aren't FIRST-bashing. Some of the people claim they have some solid leads, and its sounding more and more real. I will be happy to direct you to the specific posts of course.

I think we should lock this thread on top, so people can just click the links to see the 5 posts. Then unlock it when FIRST actually made the announcement.