[opnickc]

I don't think this is much of a problem yet, but it certainly is a potential one. I think the current problem is teams from multiple schools getting too large. For example, the average FIRST team is 24 members. My team is composed of two high schools and is 48 members. Since we are still growing, the logical thing to do would be to split the team according to school. But who's to say which school gets the old number and which is the "rookie" team? If one team qualifies for nationals and the other doesn't, should they both go? Should both teams work in the same place? What about all of the freinds who will no longer be able to work together on the same team? The problem with adding teams to a school or district is that you're not just making a new team, you're splitting up an old one. If it's in one school, you could let all new members be on the rookie team and all returning be on their old team, but that would'nt be fair. So, natuarally, people are going to be opposed to adding more teams where before there were only one. Hopefully teams that have to go through something like this will handle it with gracious proffesionalism.