Thread: Ideas to move in the direction of making FIRST competitions 'fair'
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Re: Ideas to move in the direction of making FIRST competitions 'fair'
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Originally Posted by boiler
Perhaps FIRST could complete the sports analogy and make varsity, JV, and freshman competitions. Or follow another high school paradigm and make classes, based on some sort of algorithm of team size, experience, etc. Or, like the NCAA, Division I, II, III. Then perhaps the champions could compete against each other....?
The only problem with doing divisions or any sort of class system is the number of team you need at each regional to make it work well. At most regionals the outer extremes, lots of support or very little, have a few teams each while the majority of teams are somewhere in between.

Winning is good, but losing is sometimes better, it drives you to do better next year because you have something higher to reach for. Where if you win you don't really have anything higher to reach for and the drive to succeed isn't really there IMO.
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