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Re: New FIRST competition structure in Michigan
The ONLY DOWNSIDE I see to losing thursday is getting all of the inspections done before playtime. The last 5 years and maybe beyond( Iwasn't around yet) our machines have been put in the crate, competition ready and are ready to roll on thursday morning. I would pick the 8 hours at school in our machine shop over 12 hours in a smoking hot gym/arena anyways. I look at cutting the thursdays as a cost savings. Just remember that this is just an EXPERIMENT it won't be perfect, but anything that you do for the first time in most cases isn't perfect anyways. Everything can be improved upon, nothing is perfect. Everyone has thier own ways to do things and Michigan is just trying to improve FIRST in our own way. If the experiment doesn't work then everything will most likely go back to normal in 2010. And for the economy in Michigan: it sucks, sponsors are hard to come by these days here in Michigan. The banners at the top of this page are only $250.00 and most of the students struggle to find anyone interested and it's not about selling the program because most of them would have me convinced, even if I was not involved with FIRST. I was a student also when we first started the ads and it was tough finding a taker for only $250.00 and I can sell the program pretty well to most people. If the economy was rolling and doing pretty well and it wasn't so costly to do FIRST this probably would have never came up. I loved things the way they were and it will still take some convincing for me to be sold on the new direction, but I am willing to step back and give it a chance and everyone else should do the same instead of being critics.
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-Josh Murphy-
Last edited by Josh Murphy : 03-08-2008 at 22:04.
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