[AllenGregoryIV]

The issue is that UIL is still a separate organization and not affiliated with all Texas High Schools (private and charter schools are rarely UIL schools).

After looking at this throughout the day I'm actually very pleased with the route UIL has chosen to go. To sum up my view of it, they have chosen to not actually "do" anything. They won't be hosting any of their own events or excluding any of the non-UIL teams from participating in events (a large fare for a lot of teams). They also won't be forcing joint teams to split up, most UIL activities has to be sponsored by a single school where we have a lot of FRC teams that are from a combination of schools. Giving their approval to Robotics is a good step forward and will allow the competitions to be legitimized in the eyes of some people who don't really understand our sport yet.

I'm not worried if UIL continues to crown a champion even after we move to districts. They can use the district point system and which ever UIL qualifying team earns the most points during the season can be the "UIL Robotics FRC Division Champion", that is perfectly fine with me. (This would mean we could have 3 Texas FRC State Champions, that win the District Championship, and a 4th separate UIL State Champion.)

If they start excluding teams form events I'll have a problem with it but as it stands I'm pretty happy. Just hoping they realize that they shouldn't pick just two robotics competitions and open it up to all of them VEX, BotBall, MATE, etc. Different events/competitions are better suited for different schools/teachers/students and as long as we are inspiring STEM I don't see the need for anyone to choose sides.