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Originally Posted by gblake
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This
Additionally (Frank), for the benefit of everyone concerned about the announced Championship plans, wouldn't it be nice if someone with the authority to do so (and that's not all the folks waving their personal opinions around like six-shooters), both (re)stated and unambiguously ranked by importance, the true purposes/goals of the event the FIRST web site home page graphics call the FIRST Championship?
On the other side of the coin:
Many people writing here on Chief Delphi seem to want to argue with FIRST about the Championship's purpose.
Until everyone gets that bickering out of their systems, and decides to focus on helping accomplish the official, prioritized list of reasons for holding the FIRST Championship (see above), there will be a lot of wasted posts here and elsewhere.
If you disagree with FIRST's objectives/reasons for holding a Championship, or if you want FIRST to shuffle the importance they attach to those objectives, that's fine; but that is also a different question/task than the one Frank put in front of you in his blog post.
Blake
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I agree, but I think there's an additional layer in there. Once HQ publishes this list of objectives/reasons for championships, there's still going to be reasonable disagreement about whether or not this solution (best) achieves their stated goals. People from all sides (include HQ) can have reasonable anecdotes and beliefs about what achieves those goals (Inspiration and Recognition, as Frank quotes, though hopefully with more detail). But without a concerted effort to asses this beforehand, it's really just a blind shot either way.