Jim I wasn't talking about the teams, I ment the leaders and mentors of the old teams and those who have just been invovled with FIRST for a long time. On a side note when someone says something don't jump to a conclusion based on previous posts. I also didn't mean to come across as blameing them for
deliberately creating a structure for pesonal gain. I know that MOST people involved wouldn't do that. Just the fact that it was such a small group involved and knowing how things in FIRST seem to get done (although nothing is ever made public so I can only guess) it was most likley the same old group of people. By having the same group of people not everyone was represented. By not having everyone represented it appears in my mind to be unintentionaly made to favor certain teams, once again
NOT ON PURPOSE, BUT BY ACCIDENT due to a common point of view. After reading an e-mail from a friend of yours some of that isn't true, but regardless everyone still needs to have a say in fixing the problems not just a select few.
As far as the rich getting richer comment, those are not my words they are someone eleses a few pages back, neither he (I think) nor I ment it in terms of money but rather who qualifies for states and who wins districts. The advantages are there, you just have to look at it from the flip side.
That being said, the "tone" of my last post was without a doubt deliberate, due to the fact that it is easier to understand what a person is saying when they are angry with you. Am I against the new system no, it just needs to be tweaked. If you ask for more than you actually want/need then you will get what you actually wanted/needed.
fuzzy
P.S. If anything Jim I'm the leftist radical in most minds and I'm fine with that.
