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Originally Posted by Mr V
Actually when the annoucement was made that CMP was moving to St Louis they did note that it was a 3 year contract. Later they announced that they were unable to find a suitable alternative and would extend that contract with St Louis one more year, which was for last season. Finally they announced that they had reached an agreement to have St Louis host CMP for 3 more years. So there were hints that venue contracts were up for bid. Granted that gave no clue that they were going to have a second CMP location for the final year of that contract. They also hinted that at current growth rates that even the expansion at St Louis would not allow them to keep up with the growth without a change to how teams are qualified. Again that doesn't hint specifically at two CMPs.
I do not for an instant believe that FIRST did not give full consideration before making this choice.
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Lets for a minute look back at an August 2014 Blog Post by Frank
Upper part about 2015 Champs snipped off-----
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Longer-Term Changes
To get serious now. While changes for 2015 Championship eligibility were easy for us, we see a problem on the horizon. We project that within a few years, our current system of Championship eligibility for Regionals will result in an overbooked situation. The task force continues to work on longer-term changes, and will release information on eligibility for later Championships by the end of October. You should know, though, that for us to ensure we don’t exceed our Championship capacity in later years, we will likely need to change eligibility rules, so some teams that have been eligible in the past will no longer be eligible. These won’t be easy decisions for us, but we are working very carefully to ensure the fairest result possible, and we will detail the reasons for our decisions when the information is released.
Frank
1. We will be soon overbooked.
2. There is a Task Force handling the issue, not a Committee.
3. Task Forces handle large items, Committes usually lesser important items.
4. We just may have to curtail Auto Award entries/berths (HoF~RookieAllStars). Imagine those results folks! (The Rock...)
5. We want to be fair. We will let you know more in OCTOBER...That info never came in October, they were probably in Contract Negotiations by then, or at least a bidding process maybe. But, the info did come and was fully explained by Post & Video, and now more coming.
6. We will detail THE RESULTS of these IMPORTANT DECISIONS WHEN THE INFO IS RELEASED!
7. Nowhere did they say they would be asking the community for input, or opinions, or anything. It appears to be a FIRST Decision w/ full and fair warning.
8. Usual Contract time is here (Hard Place...).
9. The man and his team cannot be more straight up...Say what they mean, mean what they say, and willing to work with the passionate community within reason.
**Opinion only, I feel more were just concerned (if paying attention at all in August), last August about how the 2015 Championship Eligibility applied to their teams, than reading about "The Longer Term- Changes" part.
I do remember reading it...Then again last night someone else posted the link and I read it again...LIGHTBULB! Oh, that's straight up. And now many affected either way are quite upset about it.
Lastly...To ask for community input (where potential loss of high award auto berths are concerned ~anybody involved in any team could potentially be affected), would actually put forth a potential set of conflict(s) of interest(s). If it appears so, rest assured, it usually is. Or, will be conceived to be by someone,...somewhere.