Well- let's think about it for a minute--
if you were a part of one of the two alliances to travel to Nationals, there would definitely be no excitement loss.. it would be great opportunity to promote FIRST and build excitement in your and surrounding communities..
As for everyone else losing interest.. it's basically being said that teams lose interest in FIRST after Nats.. which is totally untrue.. look how much talk went on about all the comps.. even the A&E special that aired. Imagine if the National Finals held on the lawn of the Whitehouse were being broadcast on TV.. you can't tell me these forums wouldn't be hopping w/ comments from all you close-to-1000 posters!
And we're talking about FIRST reserving rooms to accommodate (sp?) 4-6 teams only. They could even limit each team to a certain number of team members (something like $30). It's not like we're talking making it elementory for nationals and suddenly 2 weeks before the competition, 300 teams are trying to make reservations for travel to Disney. That's exactly the problem I'm trying to toss out ideas to prevent
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Colleen Shaver (Traitor) - Assistant Director, WPI Robotics Resource Center
FRC190 WPI/Mass Academy (2001-Present) :: FRC246 BU/O'Bryant School (2000) :: FRC126 Nypro/Clinton High (1996-1999)

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