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Originally Posted by Anupam Goli
But like, what if their way is not the best? We're starting to come full circle here, but the whole idea is this proposal has been put, no one knew even a rumor about this, until it was a done deal.
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And what if our various different ways which presumably have had less thought and analysis aren't the best? The second we add "what if" we really hit a death spiral of sorts because we actually can't know how it will turn out.
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Originally Posted by EricH
Just as a thought...
Have you ever stood on a mountain, and looked out to another place? Looks like the best way to get from point A to point B is a route, let's call it X. But if you actually talk to people who've gone that route, X might actually be a really lousy route, for a variety of reasons. Maybe Y, which you see but think isn't the best, is actually the better route, for reasons you didn't think about. But if you are telling a bunch of new hikers that X is better...
That's essentially what FIRST HQ is doing. They're standing up on the mountain, setting the direction for the group. But they aren't actually walking that route with the teams. They largely haven't experienced what teams go through. They've gotten better about trying to pay attention to that, no doubt, but they've still got a long ways to go. Not at the Frank level (he's got enough staff who've been on teams to know what's going on, and he pays attention to forums and all), but above that. This isn't FRC HQ talking in the initial announcement, this is USFIRST HQ talking. FRC HQ is the one who announced the townhall.
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Well you make another point that the group they are suggesting this path to is not just FRC teams. How dose that play into this? How will this look for all the programs in two plus years?
The route of split FIRST world championships is not something an FRC team has done. We all think we know that a tiered system will work and it likely would but the people who have to put it together before we get there have set forth a foreign plan that is so far untested.
They aren't pointing down route X or Y, they found R and want to give it a shot. All of HQ's personnel haven't been on a team and just the same we haven't all run USFIRST.