I'm all for the senseless waste of electrons, but those champs are in the far distant future, lots could change and will change before then.
For example the original poster will have graduated from college (2016), got the dream job, then went on a blind date set up by friends, they got married and had children (congrats on the twins!!!) all before FIRST needs to plan anything else.
In the same time frame Mark and Larry decided to stop spending their fortunes on hoodies and sailboats and both donated a billion dollars to robotics research. This created a huge demand and interest in robotics programs. There are now 76,000 FIRST and 140,000 VEX teams around the world. Over half of them are in India and China.
So I'm working on saving my money for the 2021 World Championship to be held in Beijing.
Carry on...
