Although I am not on a new rookie team, I imagine it must be tough for them. For instance, they have to decipher rules and a new competition, but they must also worry about gaining intrest from kids and adults, and also obtaining funding for participation.
As a matter of fact, I would like to congragulate all those hard workers on the brand new teams, for trying hard to get everything up and running. I do think it is fair for FIRST to hold spots for rookie-teams or young teams at regionals because this is giving them some slack that they may need and atleast is an attempt by FIRST to make sure they get to play.
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I am saying If rookie teams want to get in. they have to do there homework before hand. You can not just jump in and say you want to play at the cost of others.
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This statement doesn't make sense to me. How can a rookie team do their homework before hand, if they are a rookie team and have never competed before? I know, Mike that you said they should sit out and watch for a year, but then they would still be a rookie team who never competed. I believe it is the veteran teams job to teach and enlighten new teams. After all your team must have been a rookie team at some point, where did you get help from during the competition your first year? Also, look at any team who has received 'Rookie of the Year', I am sure that each year there are many more teams judges could give this award too, but this award shows that even rookie teams are awesome. Congrats to anyone who has in fact received this award, because I am positive you worked extremely hard to get it.
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If you plan on going to a regional that you know only have few teams in it. Then you show up and have many more team then when you expected. What is that saying about the game.
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I think its saying that FIRST is doing its best to make sure as many teams as they can fit in get to play, that was just a thought I had.
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You can go on and on about how FIRST is trying to help everybody and I can go on and on showing you how they are hurting the game. If the game fails so does FIRST.
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I think a contribution to the failure of FIRST (hopefully that will never happen) will be when veteran teams simply give up. I think this is why FIRST is holding spots for veteran teams, to show people they are just as important as rookie teams. And I don't think FIRST purposely makes rules to hurt veteran teams, I think the FIRST HQ people are trying to do what is best for the FIRST teams and their participants.
These are my thoughts hope they make sense to all,
Mike