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Originally Posted by Racer26
I have a much harder time understanding a collision in 2015, when HQ was looking at other host cities, and significant structure changes are not out of the question, given the current overcrowding at CMP. Seems to me that some combination of shifting weeks, changing host cities, and changing the structure should have come up with a way to avoid it.
Frank has done a fantastic job improving transparency at HQ, which has done a tremendous service to fixing a lot of the problems that were brewing in and around the 2011/2012 seasons. This announcement feels a little too much like the old HQ for my liking. Maybe he'll chime in with some clarity soon.
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Again, I fail to see any logical reason to assume that anyone intentionally made them both the same date. Do you think FIRST wants them to be the same? They have to know they run the risk of losing eyes on the event as well as participants who would have been there for FRC but are now at VEX. Maybe there was a venue conflict for other weeks. Maybe they could have resolved that by going to Atlanta or Indy, but it was too financially advantageous to stay in STL.
FIRST deserves to take flack for some (maybe even many) decisions they've made the last few years, but for you to single this event out as being absolutely their fault and a sign of ill will towards VEX is ridiculous.