[Foster]

We've created this. We've been passionate about how competition robotics can change people lives. The FLL concept has been a runaway success. FTC and VEX are grabbing as many of those roboteers as they can. Both FTC / VEX programs are on a HUGE growth cycle. Now VEX/FTC are doing states and Super Regionals to accommodate the growth.

So I'm happy to see Super Regionals, but I'll bet you a sprocket that in a few years you see Penultimate Super Regionals (tm) feeding into the Super Regionals.

And some of those VEX / FTC roboteers want to be in FRC, there is a boom coming and we will soon see regional / district FRC events feeding into Super Regionals. It's the law of numbers, you just can't take all those teams into a Worlds event.

So back to us. We created this and now there are not enough of us to help run all the events and keep things going. But wait, there are a crop of roboteers that have been through FTC/VEX/FRC that are getting out of college and starting lives and families. Some of them are starting to show up now as volunteers. Once the rest have children and start doing robotics, they will come and help us. We just need to tough out a few years until they all show up.

It's a happy problem to have, too many people wanting to do competition robotics. We are all very smart people, lets think of ways of making events and competitions less labor intensive. (Don't be a robodashian whining about about how successful we are and how hard our lives are because we are successful. )