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Originally Posted by Alex469
This twisted concept of "fair" truly irks me. Consider this:
There is a team ABC that has everything: collects sponsor money from corporate giants, builds beautiful robots - and practice robots, and dominates in competitions. We are jealous of them, right?
The teams that cry "unfair" and demand justice by doing everything short of tying one arm behind Team A's backs will not improve themselves. They seek to cripple team ABC and call it "fair."
The teams that see team A and ask "how can we achieve this?" will succeed. They will improve themselves and make themselves available to improve others.
Perhaps this comparison is not the best, or even valid, since team structure is (mostly) outside of FIRST's control, but the idea is the same: bringing everyone down to the lowest common denominator does not create growth.
Let's make the world more fair by growing the good elements of this system.
-Alex
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The difference here is those outside of Michigan
cannot participate. We don't have the chance to pay $5000 for two events, instead of $10,000 for two events, regardless of how hard we try.
FIRST is making the rules, and we're all playing the same game, yet one group of people is playing with a different set of rules for a different price.
I don't like the districts very much, but I definitely wish we had gotten over twice the plays for half the money (Especially when you consider that not a single dime of the money you pay FIRST in registration fees actually covers the cost of a district/regional event).