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Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto
I never said they went against their word. I proposed that:
1) Frank has not followed up on his word (to "detail the reasons for our decisions when the information is released")
2) FIRST HQ made an announcement last week that went in a different direction than the items discussed in the August 22nd, 2014 blog post.
The speculation in your post may or may not be true, but they are not a precise response to the main thought of my post. I simply aimed to highlight the discrepancy in Frank and FIRST's communication and allow discussion to come from that.
Thanks for reading and responding, I'll try to be clearer in the future.
-Mike
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Thank you for your clarification.
All I'm saying is that it is possible that it wasn't a different direction and maybe they are doing both. Redoing the eligibility (as discussed in the fall) and this. This task force was charged with a number of things, and eventually they realized that they might not even be able to sustain a new cmp qualification structure at one event. Or maybe they realized that they can't take away Chairmans ei, rookie all star, etc from champ qualifications because it goes against FIRST's goals and objectives.
Maybe they could not announce anything in October because of non-disclosure agreements, or maybe they were still in full discussion about this and the time just wasn't right.
So just because we all read into Frank's earlier announcement in a certain way doesn't necessarily mean that it is in a different direction. And if it is, maybe it is not bad, but maybe they decided to go in a different direction to meet several different criteria. Maybe they realized that what they originally wanted to do was not possible. None of us were in the room discussing with them, so we don't know. I'm not speaking just to you, Michael, but to everyone. Just because we may see a discrepancy in something like this doesn't automatically mean foul play or poor leadership or anything bad. Maybe it just means that they later came up with a different idea that met more objectives. Or again maybe they realized that with more exponential FRC growth in coming years, this was the only sustainable option.