It is possible to justify moving to a two-venue championship (eg a stop-gap to deal with intermediary scalability problems). The two big problems from this announcement are:
1) How FIRST sees its programs (presumably including FRC):
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Originally Posted by JVN
"One of the important things about FIRST and maybe what separates us from other sports is that we're an inclusive organization we're about not about picking a winner at the expense of others but celebrating everybody's accomplishments and success."
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2) How FIRST is willing to make and commit to big decisions without testing the waters/asking for opinions from the community beforehand
Both those are "problems" not because they are inherently wrong or broken, but they form a "big picture vision" of the future of this program that at least a significant subset of the community passionately disagree with. With those priorities, this may only be the beginning of a series of decisions with similar goals and reaction.