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AAAAaarrrrrrrgghhhhhhhh!

I know we're supposed to be graciously professional and level-headed and all of that. . . But, well, I would be lying if I said I was not majorly pissed off.

I really think that FIRST has missed the boat with these new rules. I don't think they're at all fair, as they seem to rely far too much on seniority. FIRST, to me, has always been an experience where students get to work right alongside with engineers and technically skilled people - they're seniors, if you will. There was a certain sense of equity to that aspect of FIRST, and it made it really appealing.

Now, though, that sense of equity is gone. Automatically allowing the original 28 teams to enroll is near-sighted and ridiculous. Just because a team. . . .a number, really.... has been around for 11 years shouldn't allow the assumption that they're somehow deserving or better than a rookie, or sophomore team.

Performance based qualifiers make a bit more sense, I think. . . but why does performance in last year's competition matter?

I get a strong impression that the Walt Disney Co. and Walt Disney Attractions had a heavy hand in this decision. The new fees associated with staying offsite, for example, seem to reinforce that notion.

Christina and I have been working our behind's off at school trying to complete Dean's homework assignment. . .we've been trying to get our University involved in as many ways, shapes, and forms as possible. This morning, at the SBPLI Long Island FIRST Kick-Off ceremony, we finally managed to align ourselves with a rookie school district and begin to start the process of creating a team. We talked at length with the advisors from the new school about the competitions and how thrilling and worthwhile they were. Particularly, we stressed how Nationals was unimaginably better than a regional competition in terms of excitement and amazement. I'm disappointed knowing that I'll now have to contact her and let her know that, as a rookie team, we probably won't have a place at Nationals.

Of course, maybe we'll get lucky and get assigned an even number.

Wow. . .I can't begin to express how disappointed I am by all of this. FIRST has done a terrible injustice to itself and the entire FIRST community by deciding to adopt these crooked, misconceived limits on the Championship event. I hope they reconsider.

I wonder which regional is closest to Disneyland?

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