[jman4747]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

Dude.

I feel like you know little to nothing about these top tier teams.

Helping others? They do more to help those around them than anyone else...Basically why most of the top tier teams are also Chairman's winners. They help these teams with amazing initiatives and programs built from the ground up. They help them with mentoring and finding sponsors, as well as everything else. The elite teams I'm thinking of do more in one year to develop the programs of others than most do in 10 years.

Helping others starts locally and from the ground level, not at the $@#$@#$@#$@# championship event. I can help and develop more teams through mentoring locally and providing resources than I can by 1 more team going to champs.

How dare you say they don't want to help others do better.

So why all the trouble with the championship split? You are literally saying that teams only seeing half of the "top" at one event isn't the main point. That everything else they do outside of it is more important so why do you even care if it is split? How does splitting champs stop them from continuing to do what you say?

The proposal in the previously quoted post has the "top" teams leave everyone else behind to have their own tournament at the same time. The problem is the message it sends to the teams still competing at the official championship events "we don't want you here because #1 we won't have a real champion and #2 because the event will be more fun to watch without you". That is one of the messages it will send. I am responding to the proposal in that post. I don't hold any animosity toward "top' teams and won't unless they did something like that.

FIRST gets more teams to champs and you help more of them at home. How do these things hinder each other?