Thread: [FRC Blog] 2017 FIRST Championships Allocations for Districts
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Re: [FRC Blog] 2017 FIRST Championships Allocations for Districts
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Originally Posted by asid61 View Post
IMO, FIRST is trying to give all teams the opportunity to attend Champs, but it's not their responsibility to pay for it. FIRST has extended a hand to those teams to give them the chance, as long as they can afford it, which I think is fair. That also might explain why the Champs lotto tickets stack up; lower resource teams that can't afford it one year will be more likely to be able to go in the future when they can afford it. And frankly, if a team can't afford to go to Champs many years in a row, I think Vex or FTC might be a better fit anyway.
I don't have the facts about how often Vex and FTC teams cannot afford the cost of attending their championship events in addition to building the bot, but I would wager it's a lot lower.
Don Bossi, president of First, disagrees with you somewhat. His comments here.
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