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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol
"Those teams" have just as much right to recognition as the FRC teams. Less than 1% of teams even qualify for Atlanta - 81 teams there out of more than 10000 teams registered. FLL and FTC have been regarded as the ugly step-children of FRC by too many people.
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You have entirely misrepresented my point. By saying that I have no idea what FLL teams need I meant just that -- I've never done FLL, my kids weren't in FLL, I've never attended an FLL event, and at Atlanta I spent all my time watching Edison, so I never saw an FLL match there. So when I said "I have no idea" what FLL teams would want, that's exactly what I was trying to say.
As for FTC, I've answered that in another post.
As for anti-FTC bias in FIRST, I keep looking for it, but I haven't seen it. The worst is an assumption of some current participants that FTC is a freshman program, or junior high program. In terms of disrespect, that's not so bad. I know that FIRST execs certainly don't act like FTC is a lesser program. Chief Delphi is certainly an FRC zone, but I don't think that is a negative against FTC, it's just that most posters here are FRC participants. In fact, CD is mostly an old-team FRC site, with a disproportionate representation of people from very successful teams. Nothing wrong with that, it's just important to realize that CD is not a reflection of all of FIRST. Most teams don't win regionals, win Chairman's Awards, or have $25,000-75,000 budgets, either.