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Look at it a different way

Posted by Raul at 12/25/2000 7:26 PM EST


Engineer on team #111, Wildstang, from Rolling Meadows & Wheeling HS and Motorola.


In Reply to: Re: QUESTION OF THE WEEK!!!
Posted by Rich Reynolds on 12/25/2000 2:59 PM EST:



Rich,

I agree that sometimes the regional (and even the national) venue is a little too small for the number of teams involved. However I am also concerned about the regionals getting too big and goint to coliseum type venues. I think we should have more regionals and keep them smaller.

When I first heard the Midwest regional was being held at the same time as the Great Lakes, I knew there would not be anywhere near as many teams as last year. At first I was sad because so many good teams from Michigan would not come. But the silver lining was that it would be smaller and would give us an opportunity to spend time getting to know the newer teams.

So, my suggetion to your problem is to just have more smaller regionals. But at the same time, I believe that FIRST should make them less expensive to attend so every team can go to more than one. The ideal situation would be to have at least one regional within a short driving distance of every team.

Raul

: lets see... out of all the great things FIRST comes up with, i think the one thing we could do without would be... the lack of space. If FIRST wants this program to be so large, they really need to rethink how its played, you can only fit so many people and robots into one room... and you can only have so many robots using the same doorways. For instance, At the New England Regional, the ramp up to the playing field at the meadows last year was a joke... It was all angled, and curved, the cart had like 3 wheels on the ground most of the time. Now im not sure how to fix the problem with more space, bigger buildings i guess, but this cant be held in a High School Gym anymore...


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