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Originally Posted by Madison
Remind me again why anyone, my team included, is stupid enough to keep going to week 1 events?
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Madison,
Definitely a good question, given the massive problems with Week 1 events this year and previous years. It seems like there's little incentive to attend them unless you have no other option and it's very unfair to the teams forced to attend these events. Definitely something for discussion in the off-season. Off the top of my head, some possible solutions are:
1. Reduced entry fee for week 1 events. Takes the sting out of potential problems.
2. Drastically reduced number of week 1 events (one?) so FIRST can throw all available talent at them to help them run smoothly.
3. Full-on official scrimmages on official fields in an official tournament fashion. Assuming you can find the teams to make it happen.
Or some combination of these three. But at this point it's looking more and more like something needs to be done to address the quality of week 1 events, or you're going to see an exodus of savvy teams from these events.