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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
The same thing that happens when FIRST makes an earnest effort to address concerns presented, people will complain on Chief Delphi about the things not being perfect.
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While you get points for such an edgy post, it's an honest question that Ryan asked. He's not playing Chicken Little, he's just alluding to the charade that FIRST is pulling again with punting vague news about short-term paradigm-shifting events out into the open right before cornerstone events in the season calendar. I'm for it. FIRST wrecked the Corvette and tried to replace it with some Honda Civics that definitely had some ricers with the title at one point. After seeing that some didn't think that was a fair trade, they threw in a Camaro. Not the same, but just try to focus on the same bumblebee yellow and ignore the fact that you can't see out of the back unless you have x-ray vision.
The split announcement in 2015 came right around the height of competition season between weeks 6 and 7. The split designations, if I recall correctly, came in right before 2016 Champs. Now, the announcement about a new, additional event is coming right before 2017 kickoff. Sooner or later it comes off as less coincidental and more overt. It's PR 101; take out the trash and dump news you don't like at a time where it's opportune for the constituency to forget about it (S1E13 of The West Wing uses this in its title).
I don't necessarily blame them for trying to sate the inmates of this asylum, but in the famous words: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me Twice.... Won't get fooled again. I expect some key questions to be answered and I hope solutions to some legitimate issues are developed for the good of the program, but don't let the Chicken Littles of this thread allow some key, legitimate concerns to be ignored.