[jefft]

There are two things here: 1. concert for FIRST community at the World Championship and 2. Two FRC division fields got moved to the Pit.

Yes, you can try to connect the two and probably they are related. But let's see it this way, if the four fields have been on the dome and FIRST still have concert, would most people complain about the concert? I think not. Everybody will be raving about how great FIRST is.

So, this gets me to think that the core of this, is not because FIRST host a concert or that the artist performing is BEP. It's because two fields got put into the Pit.

Now, what is so wrong about this?
You are at the World Championship. You WILL get the chance to play at the dome. I don't see much problem with this. Yes, it's an inconvenient for teams, but again, YOU ARE AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP. Enjoy it..
Now, think about all the other teams that don't get to go to World Championship. And just be glad that you got to experience this.


Note: only about 10% of FTC teams got the chance to go to this event. And only less than 1% (yes, that's right, less than ONE PERCENT) of the FLL teams got to go to this.
On the other hand, about 20% of the FRC teams are at the World Championship. Is this fair to the rest of the FIRST family (for FTC, FLL, and JrFLL)? Most FTC and FLL teams would give the world for the chance to compete at World Championship, even if they NEVER got the chance to play at the Dome and only play at the Pit.

Jeff