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Originally Posted by Botsup
I have read all 13+ pages of posts and not a single one is saying "great idea", not even one is mildly positive, most being very negative. I would venture to proclaim the FIRST community is united (a hard thing to do) in viewing this as a bad idea.
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The issue is that CD normally has a pretty united set of views and opinions, and are the ones who are inspired by success, seeing those better than us succeed, and pushing ourselves to be better and to succeed. It means in general, I've seen CD like more mentor involvement, be more in support of cheesecaking, and like alliance selections from the top 8, and other topics more than what I've seen from other students and mentors, especially those not on CD.
I completely agree with you and I don't like this at all. But there are views not represented here held by many, perhaps even a (silent) majority. I'm willing to bet that some teams will be thrilled to get a chance to be at champs even if it's only half of it, even if personally I'd rather my team not be able to attend because we didn't do well enough instead of getting a spot because there are more spots and the bar was lowered. I'd guarantee you that many, many people will not agree with my view though.