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Originally Posted by Alex2614
I'm sorry but having only 0.5% of teams being able to experience the championship isn't very inspiring to me. I couldn't care less about having "one real champion." I want to change peoples' lives.
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Go look at any major sport at the highest level. Basketball, baseball, soccer, football. How many people make it to the NBA, MLB, NFL, etc? Now look at how many people have ever played that specific sport. A few hundred make it to these leagues. A few millions have played the sport. Then tell me that sports haven't influenced/changed people's lives.
Live changing will occur regardless of champion split. The question is, which one does more of it.
In life everyone isn't a winner to the same degree. Not everyone can be a CEO of a large company, not everyone can be a rockstar, not everyone can be a pro athlete. All of these "goals" are extremely rare. Imagine if 20% of all your friends were millionaire CEO's. Imagine if 20% of them expected to be millionaire CEO's.
It's a hard question, and one that society as a whole hasn't really had a competitive field where a massive number of individuals/teams are at the very top of success. I still think it's not the best direction for FIRST. We know small numbers of teams/people at the top is inspirational. Do large numbers of people at the top have the same effect? I feel like it doesn't, but I have no examples because everyone else uses the "small percentage format"