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Re: Championship Location Announced

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Originally Posted by Pault View Post
Can you specify what your complaints were. I have never been to champs (yet...), but judging from what I've read in this thread, not everybody agrees that St. Louis is bad, and very few people hate it. The way you wrote your post kind of assumes that almost everybody who is reading it would agree with you, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Also, don't let the details take away from the entire experience. At an event the magnitude of championships, it is impossible to make everything perfect. And it doesn't make things any better that everybody who attends expects the event to be perfect and absolutely amazing in every way, because of how much effort they put into getting there. The reality is that championships, no matter how hard FIRST tries and how much money is put into it, will never live up to its expectations. Sure, there are things that FIRST can improve upon (like the finale), but in the end we need to be happy with what we get. The championships are supposed to be culmination of all the sweat and tears that teams put into their robots. It is up to you to enjoy it as that. You can love it for what it is, or hate it for what it isn't. The choice is yours.
Keep an eye out for my letter. I will post on this thread once it is completed. It explains all of this in detail. Everybody that I personally have talked to prefers Atlanta FAR more than St. Louis. I'm not just letting little details take away from the experience. I'm letting the really big logistical aspects take away from the experience. The only people that I have talked to that prefer St. Louis are the ones that have only been to St. Louis. There are a few exceptions, obviously, but that will always happen. Also, people that have posted in favor of STL have either a) never been elsewhere for cmp or b) citing very specific aspects of STL that they like, but not saying why it would be better than other locations, like, say Atlanta or Indy. I have yet to hear a very strong argument for holding it in STL.
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