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Originally Posted by PayneTrain
I'm not saying a city won't offer a better deal later and FIRST the deal just under the pretense of location in the contiguous states, but it's something they are considering now.
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#2014HawaiiChampionship
It'll happen.
In all honesty though, why extend what already works? Granted I have not attended the St. Louis Championships yet (That's this year for me
) but from what I heard, it seemed to have worked. The fields-in-the-pit thing would probably have to be worked out, but apart from that I think it went swimingly.
One of the best parts of keeping FLL and FTC at the same time is that it gives the younger kids (Mainly FLL) something to look up to. I imagine there is nothing more impressive to an elementary or middle school kid than walking into an arena or convention center and seeing THOUSANDS of High Schoolers eagerly awaiting to come talk to you about your lego robot. Heck, that's what keep me awe struck my freshman year when we qualified for Atlanta by winning Oklahoma as a #1 seed.
There's a quote that I love from
The New Cool which (paraphrasing; I don't have the book with me at school) "You've seen the robots on the internet, and now you're seeing them in person. You realize that
this is it.. You're here, and you may never be here again."