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Originally Posted by nobrakes8

It might be good in Kansas City for a few reasons, first everybody pretty much has to travel because Kansas City is in a fairly remote FIRST area, so that means all the west coast and east coast teams and everybody in between would take a dent with paying for travel. This would give FIRST the oppertunity to really shine in an area that lots of school districts don't have FIRST teams, give them a chance to recruit to get school administrators to visit, as well as all the advertiseing that would end up happening in the local news papers. Kansas City is another "cheap" big city everything was reasonably priced when I was there with SkillsUSA. The problem would be seating arrangments in the convention center setting.

Well, this is sort of a detriment also. Wherever the Champs are held, they have to raise money to fund it....FIRST doesn't just provide all the money needed... there needs to be a relatively large amount of local support, corporate and teamwise. So, while it would be great to expose that part of the country to the event, it may not have the ability to support the event with less support there currently. Unfortunately, I don't think it's a bonus to have majority of teams having to take a dent for travel expense... While it may seem "fair" in some respects, it may not be a great reason. But, it would be smack in the middle of the country!