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Originally posted by "Big Mike"
Since when is FIRST about the championships ( and i say that like i would the super bowl, or world series) If a rookie team starts in the program for the single purpose to goto The Championships, then In my honest opinion, they are here for the wrong reason.
Sure the championships serve a purpose, and sure its a great learning experience, but a rookie team from the mid west attending a east or west coast regional could be more beneficial, and not as overwhelming, our team, team 25 started in FIRST in 1997, not to goto The Championships, not to win, but to build a robot, thats what this program is in the end, build the robot, don't worry where you compete. in 2000 we got to nationals by accident, and won,
we are all allowed our opinion and i am not here to try and change people's opinion.
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Mike- all the teams should go to the Nationals. Frankly, the experience of attending the Nationals is the most motivational and fun part of the whole FIRST world. It is where you get to meet the kids from other parts of the country and it is the big event that FIRST hypes as the "superbowl of smarts". What team doesn't want a shot at the superbowl or is content to settle for little league when everybody raves about the big leagues?
FIRST is about motivating kids and being a part of a bigger picture. You don't need to win but everybody SHOULD be there. All the teams have something to share with the others. If team 25 could have gone to the nats in the beginning we would have. You were there and know that we wanted to but didn't believe we could. We weren't ready then. We certainly are now but unfortunately in the future may not be allowed to. THAT's the issue.
We'll have no choice but accept what is thrown at us. But we don't always need to be smiling about it.
WC