[JeffJ]

Based on the troubling info we're learning about the FTC platform and questionable deals with Lego, it's starting to look like FIRST is selling all it's programs as markets to big companies. So if the rumors are true, I would guess Lego and their partners, Pitsco and Robolab will somehow have something to do with the new FRC system. If they're giving FLL and FTC away to companies as for-profit marketing springboards, they might as well throw FRC in. I would think having access to kids from elementary school through high school would be very appealing to companies wanting to control markets with as little or no competition as possible.
I guess I'm joking, I hope, since there's really no way for Lego, NXT or Robolab to be part of FRC. But nothing would really surprise with FIRST right now.