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Originally Posted by WJF2011
4) walking between the G dome and the GWCC was kinda annoying.
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If you can find another enormous facility that houses almost 340 teams' pits that is within the same proximity that the GWCC is to the Dome, please let FIRST know and make a suggestion.
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Originally Posted by GGCO
Sure, but you're an exception. There are plenty of teams that buy their way in and aren't an asset to their alliances.
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Following this logic, you are saying that "teams that aren't an asset to their alliances" shouldn't be allowed into the Championship. There were teams with merit-based qualifying awards, such as Regional Chairman's, Engineering Inspiration, or Rookie All-Star, that fielded less-than-stellar robots. At the same time, there were teams with incredible robots that may have gotten unlucky during qualification matches and/or alliance selections and may not have won their regional, or received a qualifying award. My team is extremely grateful for the open-bids to the Championship. Even though we qualified with a regional win this year, we still paid for an open bid months ahead of time. In 2008 and 2009, we also went to the Championship with an open bid.
Just because "teams aren't an asset to their alliance" doesn't mean that FIRST should not allow open bids to the Championship.
-Logan