Thread: 40+% Growth Rate - How Long?
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Re: 40+% Growth Rate - How Long?
Posted by nick237 at 12/23/2000 10:44 PM EST


Engineer on team #237, sie h2o bots, from Watertown high school ct and sieman co.


In Reply to: 40+% Growth Rate - How Long?
Posted by Raul on 12/23/2000 7:02 PM EST:



There is no such thing as too big.
What FIRST could do is each state would have a regional and the top three teams would represent their state in the nationals. Each three teams would be the alliance against another state alliance. every alliance would have to be represented by 30 members or more of every team that entered a robot in their regional.
Foreign contries would do the same.
The USA alone would represent 50 states x 3 teams = 150 robots. 150 teams plus any foreign teams would make for a great but manageble event.
Or their could be an event like the 14 days of the Olympics or the 21 days of the World Cup Soccer.
The last one sounds good to me, 2 to 3 weeks in Florida wow.
What would your choice be?
Nick 237


: Since 1993, the number of teams participating has more than doubled every 2 years. When will we reach critical mass? How long could this go on?

: I hope it does until every high school in the US is participating (and at least one from each of the United Nations).

: Just think about it; at this rate we will have over 10,000 teams by 2010!

: Can the existing FIRST organization continue to handle this with that many teams?

: Can we really have a National competition with more than 5000 teams? Surely, there would have to be some form of regional playoffs or rankings to limit the number of teams.

: How would they handle the kickoff? 20,000 people at one kickoff (not to mention Dean's house)? They would also have to have regional kickoffs or something like that.

: How about the regionals? How many would there have to be? Will there ever be a regional in another country - there has to be if enough foreign teams join right?

: How about media coverage? Do you think there could be 10,000 teams involved without FIRST become a household name? How long before we have professional FIRST competitions. At what point will FIRST be considered the elite high school event that everyone wants to be in (isn't that Dean's dream?)?

: If you think 10,000 is no big deal, then how about 64,000 teams by 2015?

: I would love to see FIRST's roadmap for the next ten or more years.

: Raul





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