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Originally Posted by xman206
This defeats the whole purpose of the World Championship...How good would one feel if they were to win one of the two championships?
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I've had enough time to think about this from many angles now. My current position is this:
From the point of view of a student who never knew a time before the championshplit, I think winning (for example) the "FRC North Conference" championship would feel pretty good. So what if the South Conference teams aren't there? It's still going to be bigger than the entirety of FRC was in 2000. Those of us living through the transition will feel the pain, but after it's done it's likely that the positives will outweigh the negatives for the majority of teams.
Having it be a net positive is
very likely if we focus on the ways it can be so.
I would probably have been happier to keep a single FIRST Championship, even if it has to be smaller, if a lot of what makes it especially inspiring could be infused into the District championships. Unfortunately, trying to fill two Championships to the level of the existing one is going to make it more difficult to pump up the District events.