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Originally Posted by GearsOfFury
Yes it's unknown. To grow, we must adapt. We must reach more students, and quickly. While a single world championship is certainly inspiring and a very worthy aspiration, does the lack of one stop millions of high school students every year from striving for and being inspired by their state sports championship? Does knowing that you are "only" class 4A champ vs. class 6A champ, or "only" Illinois champ vs. Indiana or US champ, so significantly impact students' and coaches' drive to participate, succeed, and win that we can't go on?
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An important difference that FIRST has failed to address: other HS championships have clear distinctions among schools or levels which are easy for participants and outsiders to understand. The Champs/Super Regionals don't have any such distinction--it's just a division of the world into 2 with some fuzziness that's unclear.
I posted extensively last year on why we lose a lot of inspiration with the split. It undermines Kamen's original insight that sports attracts kids attention because it builds up heros that they follow. We will lose our heros by not bringing them together.