Thread: Winning Multiple Regionals
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Unread 04-04-2008, 12:40
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Re: Winning Multiple Regionals
I'm missing something, y'all help me out.

a. why does FIRST have to be fair?
b. if it has to be fair, where do we start?

- do we make sure every team has a trailer to haul their robot?
- do we make sure every team has a well equipped shop?
- do we make sure every team has funding for travel or has equal access to funding and sponsors? How do we do that?
- do we make sure that the teams are the same size?
- do we make sure the teams all do the same outreach?

I genuinely want to know why and how but my opinion in this without knowing those answers is that when we go for the fair thing, we start setting limits. Those limits start setting boundaries. Those boundaries start denying access. Lack of access starts impacting development, growth, and innovation.

Like I said, I'm missing something.
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