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Re: GM and its impact on FIRST
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Originally Posted by Chris Hibner
I just don't understand how the buying public gets duped into thinking these things without checking the facts and doing any research.
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From experience I can tell you that it's because it's quicker and easier to just believe what people tell you than to look it up for yourself.
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Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri
I've heard nothing but praise for the 2009 Michigan district event model. The continuation and spread of this seems like a piece of puzzle for FIRST's sustainability.
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And with GM shrinking from the picture a little that model likely won't go anywhere. We were told that one of the advantages of the state competition model is that the competitions are significantly cheaper than the regional that our team used to participate in. With a lot of teams funding drying up with GM's chapter 11 bankruptcy the FIRST in Michigan people wouldn't return to a more expensive system when it would mean that potentially massive numbers of teams couldn't compete.
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