[Chris Marra]

A new controller system for both FTC and FRC not only means that FIRST is breaking their contract with IFI, but it sounds like they do not care too much for Intelitek either. I am sure that easyC can be updated to the new systems, but it was an excellent program to allow teams to easily control their robot and learn programming fundamentals.

I am sure that the new systems will have graphical programming and FIRST will provide help to teams in learning how to use them, but for teams without many resources it is a much larger ordeal to completely relearn a system than it is for teams with lots of support. Consider rookies who just learned how the FRC control system works vs. veteran teams who have been using it and how both will adapt to having to learn an entirely new system.