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Re: Qualifying for CMP in the future

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Originally Posted by Bill_B View Post
Several searches of this thread have failed to tell me if anyone has noted that the FLL World Festival is not a championship. There are apparently too many regionals to allow all those winners to compete at CMP. This does not reduce the excitement and enthusiasm of the invited teams as they reach the "big" stage.

I cannot predict how this information will or will not affect the topic of discussion here. I could give you some ideas about how it feels for those kids to be able to show their work in such a large venue. If it were up to me, I'd say that any FRC Team would have to have supported at least one FLL or FTC team as part of their qualification for CMP.

Separate event for FLL? Thumbs waaaaaaay down for that.
If teams had to support an FLL or FTC team to go to CMP, how would you tell the kids on an FRC team that built that robot over the 6 weeks and poured thousands of hours into the team and made it to the semis at maybe 2 regionals that they cant get into the CMP because they dont have enough team resources to try to support an entirely different entity for their competition year? That would hurtful to those FLL/FTC kids who wouldnt get the full effect of FIRST because their FRC mentors are striving for their results for their team as it was.
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