[Clem1640]

I agree that FIRST Championship is FRC-centric. Look at the opportunity for a team to participate: it's about 20% for FRC versus about 3% for FTC. For FLL, it's significantly less than 1%. This year, I had both the FRC and FTC teams I mentor participate and so was able to see both sides. In addition, an FLL team one of my FRC students mentors was there too.

Not a justification for this lopsided allocation, but I will point out that having 30 - 40,000 people watch an FTC or FLL match live might not be a viable option. Trying to watch an FTC match from 1/4 mile just doesn't seem to work.

I'll also point out that each FRC team participating pays $5,000 to register, versus $1,000 for an FTC team. Taking into account the number of teams, FRC registration revenue is more than 10x FTC registration revenue.