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Re: Qualifying for CMP in the future

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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery View Post
Because, at a certain point, the competition is about the robots. When we talk about the "rockstar" teams in FRC, it's generally teams that field great robots. We have a website dedicated to ranking the top 25 competition teams in FRC. An anymous poster who writes a column about teams' chances of winning events. Multi-hour podcasts and video blogs about how teams are performing and whether or not they're going to win. The engineering rock stars of FRC usually come from these celebrated teams.

The best part, to me, is that these rock star teams also generally get it off the field as well. There's little surprise to me that our current championship alliance consisted of two hall of fame teams. Only very rarely are the teams that we're celebrating for winning an event teams that "don't get it."

Not saying that we shouldn't include RCA, EI, and RAS winners as qualifiers for Championship. Just exploring the other side of the coin for a little while.

I definitely agree with you - I didn't mean to say in any way that the competition wasn't about the robots as well...You're 100% right, I love seeing that teams that 'get it' are also the ones producing great robots. I simply wouldn't want to see people overlook the value of the RCA/EI/RAS awards as a reason to be at the Championship event.
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