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Originally posted by Carolyn Duncan
Hey Justin,
About your comment of renting out an arena and the expense. What about when FIRST rents out Epcot for the evening for all of us? That can't be too cheap can it? And nats already being limited. Yes they are and I don't agree with that. There has got to be some way to eliminate limitations.
C~ya,
Carolyn who doesn't like conformity or limitations, and pushes both to the point that no one thought was possible just to prove them wrong. 
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As much as I hate limiting National... I have to say that FIRST HAVE to do that eventually. I would even say that FIRST should do it next year because the size is so big already...
The two reasons why I say this:
The Price of getting a bigger place anywhere have grown more and more that it just get ridiculously expensive to have a bigger event.
There are so many teams in one place that FIRST will never have the personal or the resource to have a completely organized competition.
There is just no good way of facing this problem... Yes, even though National was made so that ALL teams could go, but next year we are probably facing 600 teams all over the national. So, one way of letting every team to go to National is to raise the entry fee to $10,000, or some how FIRST just have to start making money through some other way... (You see what I am getting at?)
Again, I have to stress that this is a problem with NO perfection solution. We might not like it, but that's the way it is.
SO, no matter what people want, limitation is a MUST even thought it's not a good solution. Remember, FIRST is just people like us... They are facing the same problem as we do, and they don¡¦t intentionally limit the size of National just to make people angry. It's a really tough job they are doing, and I just hope you all have the heart to respect FIRST's decision...
Couple of things I've heard that FIRST might be doing to limit teams at National:
Odd numbered teams will allowed to go to National in one year, and then Even numbered teams will be allowed to go to National the year after, and they rotate between the two group.
Also, teams who are doing really well at Regionals deserve to go to National because they should be given the chance to prove how good they are in the National level.
Finally, teams with really good record from pass years deserve to go to National... There are teams who did a really good job in the pass years who might have some trouble this coming year so they won't be able to have good result (for whatever reasons) at regional... Teams like team 22 Chatsworth HS who won the Chairman Award this year totally deserve to go to National next year for what they did, even though their robot didn't win a regional competition...
All these are to make sure the students on a team will get a chance to go to National IF they want to... while maintaining the quality of National...