03-10-2007, 21:26
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6th Gear Developer; Mentor
AKA: Blake Ross
no team (6th Gear)
Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: May 2006
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Virginia
Posts: 1,934
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Re: [FTC]: Possible Change in Selection Process for Nationals
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Originally Posted by corpralchee
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C) I personally would reconsider spending the amount of time on my teams robot as I do if I may not even get a chance to go to Atlanta even IF my team won a regional. Is it worth my time to leave the championship up to a lottery system.
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1) I too will dislike a lottery.
2) Regardless of a lottery, please take a minute to do some introspection and ponder whether you think winning an FTC Inspiration award would be a better goal than winning the field competition? Maybe you will decide to spend that time you mention on satisfying the Inspiration award's criteria???? Winning an Inspiration award is rumored to be the non-lottery path to the World Championship....
Remember, that is what the "I" in FIRST stands for.
Blake
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