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Re: Location Suggestion for 2010 Championship
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Originally Posted by Koko Ed
I don't get the Disney love fest seriously.
All I remember was being hot all the time and could care less about the robots.
Going to the parks afterwards was nice and all but our old lead teacher was right: the FIRST championships at Disney is more about Disney than is about FIRST.We need to be somewhere where FIRST is the main focus not a side attraction in an amusement park.
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I know the kids on my team had fun when FIRST was at EPCOT in '97, but FIRST wasn't always the first thing on their minds. The adults on the team saw it very differently -- several of them told me they'd rather have been there with their own families. The following year we chose to compete at the (new) Midwest Regional, rather than go back to Disney.
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