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Originally Posted by Billfred
This is what I've been advocating since the announcement. You can do two FLL/JrFLL events without any strife, because winning a championship tournament never was a golden ticket to World Festival. Some years, you are playing for a bid to an Open. So we'll roll with that.
Make one city the FRC Championship, make one city the FTC World Championship. At the FTC site, you hold the Good Guy Frank Invitational with 60-100 FRC teams. Some will opt to do it because it's closer, or the date works better, or they've got FTC teams that want to go, or maybe we invite some teams whose district points bubble burst--but you hold a full-fat, top-flight event there so you've got all four programs represented there. Do the same back for the FRC Championship, and you have an undisputed champion and four healthy programs with room to grow.
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Yes. A solution such as this. After reading through every post on this subject, this idea seems a worthwhile suggestion, which could use more investigating and tweaking. FTC and FLL teams are very inspiring, and as well as FRC, any city should be thrilled to host them. Yes, there will be some situations where a FLL/FTC team mentored by a FRC team will not be able to stay together, but surely there are some good solutions the FIRST community can create together. I would add that I would like to see whichever city to host the FLL/FTC group be the more kid friendly, safer city. I will leave it to others to say which is better for the younger group.