[Lisa Rodriguez]

I think that the Championships will always be around, however, they willl become more and more difficult to get into. The possiblities of making more "super-regionals" is fantastic because it gives almost the same effect of nationals, 15,000 kids all in robotics screaming for each other. Its that huge overwhelming "this is awesome" feeling thing FIRST needs to keep as it grows. Its a lot harder to inspire teams that can't go to nationals, but say you have a "super regional" for maybe the 3 major time zones of the US, plenty of teams would love to do that, and it could still be a HUGE competition and then also have the championships. One way or another there are going to be more and more events every year because large numbers of teams are going to more competitions. Many teams are now going to 2 or 3 regionals, to better their chances of making it to nationals. Just giving more teams more opportunities to play the game would be great, and thats what i think FIRST will end up doing.