[Brennan4256]

I agree with everything about history and how FIRST is about inspiration and recognition.

And I can see both sides to the argument, but I have had a personal impact with the effectiveness of the single championship.

Our team has been lucky enough to make worlds 3 out of 4 years, and as a rising senior I have attended two champs myself. And what champs did for me was that it gave me an entire new level of inspiration, whether watching Einstein or creeping on 254s pit. But competing and seeing the high level of robots and competition furthered my inspiration for the powers of science and tech. Likewise, at worlds this year I saw the same looks of inspiration from a few freshman, and seeing the concentrated best of FRC made them recognize the same thing I did.

On the other hand FIRST knows what they are doing and bringing in more teams would allow this to impact more teams. But having a split of the teams won't have the same impact it may have a net overall higher impact.

We will just have to wait and see. Thanks for all the opinions. I will share these with the team. I think it's a good topic to mull over.