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Originally Posted by Daskov
it says that FIRST Canada will be restricting the number of rookie teams this year. Rookie teams will now have to fill out an application form to be reviewed and approved if you wish to start a team.
This is due to lack of funding for FIRST Canada- they don't have enough money to support the growth that Canada has.
As Canada is moving to the district system in a few years, this will really limit the number of Canadian teams able to go to World Champs. Needless to say, I am very disappointed with the news.
FIRST World Champs heavily pushed starting new teams, and then they do this. There is already some bias against Canadian teams, as many of us Canadian's have found over the years, so this plus the districts feels like they are really pushing us aside.
I hope that this is not needed in 2016.
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I would like to see the proof behind some of these conclusions.
The district system does 'limit' the number of teams that can go. As districts have been implemented in areas, it has been a goal in most areas to allow as many teams to go after the district system as went before it. In fact, they just changed the number of Michigan teams allowed to go based on %'s to keep it correct with our new influx of teams.
I'm not sure what you mean by bias against Canadian teams either: judges are volunteers and any team who avoids picking a team just because they are of a particular nationality is only hurting themselves.