[JohnFogarty]

I understand how you feel mate. Just remember the competitiveness between the programs is always going to exsist and a lot of the FTC program feels suffocated by how little representation they get at the World Championship level. I expect with the new venue next season, we'll begin to see this change.

I can't wait to see what happens if FTC World allows significantly more teams in to the Championship now that the site is no longer in the dome. FTC has a much higher competitiveness than FRC in terms of a much larger number of high quality teams. Teams that can win worlds one year in FTC might not even make it back in the next. Even if they win their state tournaments as the 1st or second pick on an alliance.

One thing I would like to see happen...if FIRST could manage it. Is that the FTC FINAL Finals be played on a field next to Einstein. That would truly get more respect for the FTC program that it deserves.


You'll never get me to say otherwise. FTC is the best.

PS. THOSE RUBBER BALLS MADE ME SO ANGRY. (That was also a perfect example of what I mentioned before. My team when I was a student won the SC State Championship that year as the first pick of the number one seed alliance. We didn't qualify for any advancement to a higher level event. **Even if we applied the current advancement system we wouldn't advance to a Super Regional. This is highly illogical and unfair to teams.)