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Re: Some reasons to go to more than one regional
Posted by Dave, Student on team #308, Walled Lake Monster, from Walled Lake Schools and TRW.
Posted on 4/6/99 10:24 AM MST In Reply to: Some reasons to go to more than one regional posted by Joe Johnson on 4/5/99 8:28 PM MST: Okay, this is my views on most of those topics: Reason 1: If FIRST limited the number of teams going to the regionals, they wouldn't have to spend a fortune on some hugh place, because there would be less teams at each regional, thus saving them money. Not only would it be cheaper to get a smaller place, but you wouldn't have to hire as many concession workers, for example, or even yet, let the teams work the concession stands, and let the team get 10% of the profit or something like that. It would be a good way to get teams more money, and FIRST wouldn't have to hire concession workers. Reason 2: I know that seeing good teams inspires, but it also discourages many people. I know that after hearing that we had to play with or against Wildstang at Great lakes, my first thought was that I hope we get stuck with them, because I didn't want to face getting creamed by a really good team. Also, after seeing some of the finals, I was not only amazed by some of the robots, I knew that my team will have to pull of a miracle (and that's in the plans right now) to do good in Florida. Reason 3: I'm not trying to sound mean here, but what about the other teams that cannot goto multiple regionals? They come home, and they can only tell their sponsers that they didn't do good. Just to clarify things, I'm not saying that it's guaranted that a team will do bad in it's first regional, but I'm sure there are more teams that do bad then do good. As Chris put it in his analogy, 'The sponsors of the teams demanded that the team be more competitive (to get more recognition for the sponsor), or the sponsorship money would be withdrawn. Noting that the budget required to become competitive was out of reach, some teams started to fold up and withdraw. Other teams voiced concern to the governing body before they dropped out. They stated that if the governing body didn't try to control spending in some way, they, along with other teams, would be forced to remove themselves from the series.' * Taken from Re: my little analogy - Chris - 4/5/99 8:01 AM MST Dave |
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