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Re: let me say this about that...
Posted by P.J. Baker, Engineer on team #177, Bobcat Robotics, from South Windsor High School and International Fuel Cells.
Posted on 5/7/99 8:24 AM MST
In Reply to: let me say this about that... posted by Joe Johnson on 5/6/99 11:35 PM MST:
I pretty much agree with everything here. I do think that the regionals should count for less than half of seeding points at Nationals (to encourage improvement between regionals and nationals)
I think that FIRST should discourage teams only going to Nationals (although it shouldn't be prohibited until every team has less than a 5 hour drive to a regional). For a rookie team, a regional is likely to be less overwhelming than Nationals, they are more likely to get into the elimination round, and they don't suffer the huge momentum loss of shipping a robot and then twiddling their thumbs for two months waiting to compete. To me, the huge downtime is the least inspirational thing in all of FIRST. I think that it would be even more so for a rookie team.
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