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Originally posted by nick reynolds
Nate Im a little confused by some of the things im reading, not only from you but others. You said.
"FIRST has always said that one of their goals is to eventually expand to the point where every school in the country has a FIRST team. If they don't give an opportunity to those first year teams who are struggling up until kickoff to get things put together to compete, it would be counterproductive. After all, how good would it be for FIRST to be working with a team to get started, only to tell them, "sorry, since you didn't start early enough, you can't compete this year - better luck next year."
This makes little sense because we now know that this is impossible because if that dream came true where would the competition be held?. Florida is already full acording to FIRST thats why were limited this year to just over half of last years National total. FIRST cant handle 530 teams, how are they going to handle 10.000. not including overseas teams.
Also The " sorry you cant play because you didnt start early enough" is already happening because if your one of the original teams from 1992 ( you get to go).
Regardless of winning a regional. I voted NO because it should be FIRST come F.I.R.S.T. serve.
If this is a competition and only 60% of all the teams registered in the Regionals are able to go to Florida due to the lack of space then the top 60% of the winners should go on their effort and merit. If a team who has won a place in the top % cant go to Florida for what ever reason then the next team in the lower 40% get to go and so on.
Every one has an equal chance, veterans and rookies. Veterans can have bad luck and rookies can have good luck, this to me seems the fairest way for all. None of this even/odd stuff.
Dont be mad at me folks, I just want to see the competition as even as possible.
nick237
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My understanding of the original post that started this thread was that it was referring to FIRST saving positions at regionals, which is what I was referring to in the quotes that you mentioned. While I understand the point that you made of if everyone could go, where would the competition be(referring to Nationals as far as I can tell), I also feel the same as many others have said since the announcement about nationals was made. The regional events are even more crucial now, and for many rookie teams, may be the only chance they get to participate this year. So, the point I was trying to bring across is that if the decision is between letting a veteran team attend 3 regionals(just an example, not looking at any specific team number here), or letting that same veteran team have two regionals, and saving the slot at the other regional for a team that doesn't get formed until mid-November, I'm all for saving the slot.
Hope this helps to clear up what I meant...