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Re: ChampionSplit: A Historical Perspective

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Originally Posted by Knufire View Post
Adam mentioned this earlier, but I'd like to reiterate that those top 1% of teams do a pretty significant amount of behind the scenes work to help FRC function the way it does. From key volunteer positions to helping start new teams, I'd argue that FIRST is shooting themselves in the foot if they think they can get away with demotivating their elite.
I would instead say that FIRST Board of Directors is removing the current source of motivation that pushes many teams ("elite" and "non-elite") forward.

Teams have the choice to re-establish this source of motivation and teams have the volunteer capacity to make it happen by 2017.

-Mike
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