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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
It's not splitting hairs. You're making a statement as fact, when FIRST has not officially announced anything official regarding how they are determining championship slots. Further still, they have announced that they are investigating something that goes contrary to your statement. Rather than making declarative statements, you should present the full picture.
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Given that the Number 1 objective stated by FIRST for Championsplit is reducing travel costs and given the distribution of teams across North America, by far the highest probability is that California will be assigned largely to Houston, and a statement by a California team that they are focused much more on Houston rather than Detroit is completely valid. We all have to act on the information we have given the lack of information from FIRST on the topic (which reflects the tone-deaf, insular way in which this proposal was rolled out in the first place). FIRST should have either (1) explored multiple concepts with community with an open book and then formulated a response or (2) released a very comprehensive, well considered, detailed plan. Instead they released a half-considered plan that anyone with experience sees is a political trainwreck in the making.