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Originally Posted by Banderoonies
Everyone criticizes my "divorce" analogy. However, when a family gets divided into two championships and the "kids" have absolutely no say in the matter, that is what it felt like to me. Sorry for those of you that took offense at this analogy. I meant no offense. I simply found the split really sad and very "dividing" of this organization.
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Your divorce analogy was very similar to one I've used in private conversations. It was wonderfully put, and I'm so sorry that the moderator was so rude to you for it. The 'family' doesn't deserve that kind of treatment.
The fact about this split is, the community be segmented even further than it already is. Think about the reaction when Districts first came to be - "We'll never get to play with our friends from (insert location here) since they'll be locked to their region!" The response, before inter-district play, was -
well, you can see them at the Championship, so....
Now we won't get to. There are so many people who travel on their own to the Championship to volunteer, to attend conferences, to watch their friends from all over the world play, to meet the 'greats'. FIRST would ask these die-hard supporters to travel twice?
I'm not a Championshplit fan, and it's going to be hard to ever convince me to be. The FIRST community does not need to be fractured in order for it to grow.