[michaelwm]

Our team is in it's second rookie year - we have gotten to the semi-finals at every regional but never further, and just last regional, we were the closest to going to the world championship we have ever been. After we lost at our last regional, I was personally devastated. So close, yet we didn't make it. The point is that our team is a middle-lower class team. Going to the world championship is really my dream.

And yet, of the people on our team who have heard this announcement, we all dislike it. Out of the ~100 teams we competed with this year, only 6 made it to the world championship. We desire to go to world's because we want to know we are in the top 6% of FRC teams in the world.

But top 25%? That's an entirely different story. Being 1 in 4 doesn't say "you are a top team". Being 1 in 16 does.

It's not just the "elite" teams, it's teams like ours that want a real championship, not another regional.