The venue dates are already set, so wouldn't that mean Houston division winners would be forced to travel for 3 years straight while our friends in the midwest and northeast enjoy substantial cost savings (even if FIRST kicked in to defray costs for travel teams? Unfortunately, the only fair way (IMO) to have interaction between split champs is to have division winners from both 'championships' travel at another time which would be a huge cost in $$ and time for FIRST and the division winners. Would it really be worth it? Alternatively, would it really be worth it to just send the 'split champs' champion alliances to compete on another date to decide an overall 'world' champion alliance? I would love to be able to have a single champion alliance but it just doesn't seem reasonable as things stand now. And maybe having two 'champions' won't be as bad as many have postulated...or will it?
