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Originally Posted by Rangel(kf7fdb)
Since the venues are already booked, what if we had FRC in one venue and FLL/FTC in the other. As I understand, FLL and FTC already don't have enough teams at champs. I know here in Arizona, we are only able to send a team to championships bi yearly for FLL(Not sure if this has changed). If FTC and FLL had their own venue, they could have more teams that go to their championship event so that it isn't so much of a problem. FLL and FTC have more representation and FRC keeps its world championships. What does everyone else think about this?
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I don't mind it, but realize that FIRST probably would've had to plan for this contingency in the negotiations. Getting the Worlds bid is a significant competition for cities (remember when STL won), and it's likely that FIRST's negotiations included verbiage that would make this difficult (even if they didn't mention FRC directly, which I'd imagine they did). This isn't a shot at FLL or FTC, I just wouldn't count on them being interchangeable.