[Rachel Lim]

I'll be writing another post with a more detailed explanation for how I think super regionals and a single champs could work, but first I wanted to bring up this point:
If FIRST is truly determined to have a split champs, the is probably very little anyone can do to change that. Think about it (and I understand these are probably not too relevant to most of you, who are probably adult mentors) like you're arguing with your parents about whether you can go to robotics, or trying to convince mentors that WCD is better than mecanum (examples weren't intended to refer to actual events). You can try your best, but in the end, someone else has all the power. It's not clear how far FIRST is willing to compromise / work with other ideas.

Originally Posted by Dunngeon

Just wanted to point out that each event will host 400 teams, meaning that there are 800 FRC teams total attending a World Championship.

Thanks for the clarification. It seems that there are at least three locations (St Louis, Detroit, and Houston) that can host 400+ FRC teams, plus FTC and FLL.

Originally Posted by MrRoboSteve

My post about volunteers might have been a bit confusing. I'll try to explain further. First, I think you'd agree that FRC events are much more volunteer intensive than FTC and FLL events. Therefore, I am going to focus on FRC in this discussion.
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Thank you for the explanation. I'll address volunteers in my next post, which will hopefully be a bit more complete than the previous one.

Originally Posted by MrRoboSteve

Some students participate as team members in FTC and FRC (ours, for example), in others the FTC and FLL teams are mentored by FRC team members. There are a lot of Chairman's Award applications that discuss how the FRC team created/mentored multiple FTC/FLL teams.

I'll talk about this more later too. Currently do district champs have FTC/FLL with them, or are they purely FRC? I remember Alamo regional having FTC and FRC in the same building, but how many other events have an overlap?

Originally Posted by MrRoboSteve

I disagree that they haven't been clear about their goals. The announcement has two goal statements in it that they use to justify the change.

Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. They have said what their goals are, and I think most people agree with them. What they haven't said is why a split champs is the only way to fulfill those goals. What is it about district champs / super regionals that wouldn't work out as well? I'm sure they have reasons to believe in the split champs, but I'm still waiting to understand why they think it's the only way to do that.