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Originally Posted by Chris is me
Ultimately, my last complaint is with the death of the single Championship event. A 195 mentor said at the town hall in 2015 that separating Champs is like a divorce, cutting the FIRST family in half, and ultimately that is my biggest issue with the decision. A smaller Championship for everyone, great. Two World Champions, whatever. But splitting the FIRST family in half, forever? Realizing Saturday that I'll never see half of my network of FIRST friends again? This is absolutely heartbreaking. FIRST is about the people; FIRST has so many great people, FIRST has fostered so many incredible connections across geographic boundaries... and FIRST has now constructed a giant wall between the two halves of this country, and the world. Think of all the alliances on Einstein that will never be reunited. 987 and 195. 330 and 2481. 3476 and 217. I can't believe this is happening. The single Championship is a special, magical event, it's a family reunion, and we'll never see one again.
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Never is a rather long time. We can hope that FIRST will see that their experiment leads to undesirable outcomes, and realizes that it needs to fix the situation. There are several viable solutions that have been proposed. (Adding another post-event championship is not one due to huge logistical problems.)