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RE: Zach, Rich, and Cory-

Maybe it’s just me, but I think Zach’s post could have been replied to a little more civilly. I think it’s a little presumptuous to think that every team in FIRST wants to compete at the Championship Event. I don't want to compete in Atlanta this year (although I may be persuaded otherwise if we qualified and somehow found the cash on a tree). I agree with Zach in the sense that I don’t believe that it’s worth the extra travel cost to my team to compete in Atlanta versus competing at a second event like Sacramento. But people who think like this are definitely the minority in FIRST. Most people want to compete at the Championship Event either for the allure of it all or just to see ~300 other teams all in the same place. There’s absolutely nothing like it, but I don’t mind having my team wait a couple years in between visits to save some cash.

Getting back to the topic of this thread…

Being a tier #2 team, and therefore not having much of a shot at getting an open spot, I would say that my team’s chances of qualifying for the Championship Event lie in our team’s robot design next season being worthy of a judged award at Sacramento and Silicon Valley, in addition to being lucky and either being a finalist or winning one of those events. I’m pretty confident in my team’s ability to win judged awards (we’ve won Leadership in Control at SVR the past two years). The rest is up to chance. Even if we qualify, we still have the daunting task of raising $4,000 for registration, plus last minute travel costs. We’ll see how things go.
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