[Jon Stratis]

FIRST Choice is certainly good... until you look at the competition done for parts, and how many teams can't get what they actually want from it (How GP is it to order a ton of a particularly "in demand" item?). I'd much rather have a process that made obtaining parts a little more fair. Have 2-3 "rounds", where each round consists of a week for teams to indicate their desires. At the end of the week, FIRST distributes items (or reserves them) for teams based on limits determined by the demand for each limit. In other words, if they have 10000 Talons, and 2500 teams each want several, then a practical limit of 4 is created for that round. At the end of the rounds, ship out the entire reserved order for each team.

At least, it would end the mad rush at the start, the sellouts, and give FIRST time to handle any issues that crop up.