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Originally Posted by EricLeifermann
Who is actually going to send their teams to this should they win? There is no incentive to attend this by the winning teams. If FIRST wants this to be successful they need to pay for the teams to travel. This will not be a cheap trip.
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You just outlasted 396 other teams to win a Championship, punched your ticket to a once-in-an-ever experience three months out, including the opportunity to play for the undisputed world championship, and you're worried about travel?
I recognize three months is genuinely tight for our friends on other continents, but for the North American teams:
come on. That's time to get the local hype machine in motion and raise the necessary funds.
I do hope that FIRST lays out any travel support and rule addenda sooner rather than later, so there are no surprises for the teams that qualify. But as an initial public announcement, I'm genuinely excited by this email. (The office here at AndyMark went into instant hype mode.)