[Green Potato]

...because currently, nothing the community is doing is really affecting FIRST's decision-making logic at all. Unless the community takes an obvious and impaction stance on pointing out the issues with champs AND rallying behind a straight-forward, obviously superior solution, FIRST is going to give us talk without really DOING anything at all. No single community member or group of passive members, as I see it, is influential enough to impact the doings of an organization that large. It will almost literally take an army.

And, obviously, this whole 2-destination championship means there is no champion anymore. It's like the AFL versus the NFL. Teams can use the metrics all they want, but if it's not settled on the filed, it's never going to be official. People are going to miss witnessing the "true champion" because there's another one being crowned in some city hundreds of miles away. That, and FIRST is going to live on and see a bunch of diffrent teams doing well, and probably doesn't mind a lack of a concluding event so long as "everyone has fun." Well, I only have 4 years I know I'm going to be actively in this program, and I can speak for more than myself when I say that crowning "co-champions" is a rather diluted way to end the season.

That, and we CAN come up with a better solution, but it will take more minds than are in this room right now. (1), and probably some FIRST reps too. That's why we have a forum, and I have an idea.