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Originally Posted by Riverdance

Most people that I've spoken to have pointed out the lack of feedback as a negative, and I have to agree, for many reasons. That being said, I attended the Chairman's Chat presentation at Championship and the same issue was brought up. Karthik responded that the Hall of Fame teams spoke to FIRST about the issue when the decision was first made and they were surprised that it was being considered an issue, as only one team besides the aforementioned Hall of Fame teams had spoken out by contacting FIRST itself.

When we take issue with a policy that FIRST implements, it is our duty as teams to speak out. Clearly, we all thought that everyone else was going to send an email about it and didn't bother doing it ourselves. The clear solution here is to voice our passion to FIRST. They aren't going to fix it if they don't know that it's a problem.

That's interesting. I know on my part, I wasn't aware of the changes until they were already implemented as policy. Looks like I need to keep a closer eye on what's happening at an organizational level.

In that vein, it may not be a bad idea to submit an organized grouping of feedback from teams regarding the policy change after experiencing it all the way through the season.