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Originally Posted by Qbot2640
Can we please stop talking about bringing the two winning alliances together, as if that will solve the problem? We need a solution that lets FIRST achieve it's "inspire as many teams as possible" event goal, while still presenting a single, all-the-best-teams-present championship that is an honor to attend.
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The whole point here, I think, is that the community assumes that teams at either of the championship events will be inspired aOnd everything from that aspect will be fine. But the community is hung up on the "one winner" concept, and needs to find a way to either accept winners from two events or find a way to get it back to "one winner".
Frankly, two champs poses two main problems from most of the communities point of view - having "one winner" and playing with/seeing the best teams. I think most have written off the latter as impractical with two events, and instead are trying to solve the former.
Personally, I'm more worried about the quality impact of holding two separate events, with two mostly separate volunteer crews - can we get enough volunteers, and if so can we keep quality consistent between the two events, or will differences creep up as the group's get separated? We already hear about different ways things are handled at different regionals or between different districts, but as it stands we have, currently, a single championship to help unite how we do things. With two events, how might things diverge?