[Pauline Tasci]

I'm quite happy FIRST listened to a lot of the criticism. And I do think it will be cool to have 8 of the top teams all in one place to compete.

While I'm not a fan of 2 champs, I'm glad they tried to come up with a solution that we all asked for.

With that, questions that immediately came to mind (that I hope FIRST is working on):

1. Will FIRST pay for shipping, team flights, and/or board? Or any of the 3? If so, how many members of each team? This adds a lot of cost to teams that did well and have not calculated this in their budget for the 2017 season

2. Will teams have to keep their robot bagged for another 3 months? This will eliminate a lot of off-seasons that come in between Champs and the Festival, including IRI
This will also extend the season another 3 months, teams who choose to continue work into the summer will prove victorious.

3. This is in the summer (I understand, since students and mentors need to catch up on school + work), how will this work with students vacations and mentors having to take more time off work?


Overall,
I am happy that FIRST listened to criticism and are trying to accommodate our requests. If 3476 wins Houston champs, I will be very excited to head over to NH!
Hopefully some of the other questions on the thread and these and answered as the season goes on.