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Re: Clash of Objectives.
It's AMAZING how a discussion of "Does multiple World Championships hurt the mission of FIRST, to inspire students"... turns into the age old Mentor-built vs. student-built argument. Honestly people. Haven't we talked about that topic enough yet? (No!)
CD has a search function; please use it.
Back to the Topic at hand. If FIRST really wants to achieve ALL it missions (inspire while still being indeed a competition), then they are absolutely right when they say that allowing more teams to progress is the key. Seeing the best of the best is so awesome and so motivational to do better. But if they don't want to make the competition side of things a complete joke, there needs to be one undisputed Champion (looking at you, 20th century college football).
The obvious solution (to me it's obvious) is to make the Championships (soon to be plural) local/regional championships, and hold one Grand Championship of the Championships.
...Oh wait, districts already do that...
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My Journey in FIRST:
Mentor/Coach/Engineer
2014-2017: Team 1076 - Pi Hi Samurai
____ 2014: Team 5220 - The Rockets
2009-2014: Team 313 - The Bionic Union/Bionic Zebras
Student
2006-2009: Team 313 - The Bionic Union
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