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Originally Posted by dag0620
Well one thing I did note, was that outside of Canada, all of the international countries with FRC Regional events got assigned to Houston. I find that an interesting im balance.
Thoughts?
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In terms of travel time and distance, this seems great (after a preliminary look at how flights transfer, since DFW and LAX are the most common entrypoints to the US, at least from Oceania).
If you're talking in terms of performance-balance, sure, there will be a bias between the championships just because of the way the stats work out. But, from what I've seen after talking to many international teams and even observed from my own teams, merely going to championships is an experience that is unparalleled. This year, 0 out of the 6 Australian teams attending champs made it to their division's playoffs, but we still ended up leaving the competition happy and inspired. Seeing the looks on these kids faces showed me that it's not ALL about the competition, and maybe this whole "getting more kids to champs" is a good idea.
Now's a good time to reiterate that this is my opinion, and may not reflect that of my teams or FIRST internationally. Again, the opinion I'm presenting is
purely focused on travel logistics and not the performance split between the 2 Champs.