disillusionment.

[asher]

I think most of you missed the point of Bill's post. It's not about the sad stories or stuff people went through, to me personaly its just saying that FIRST as a competition is worthless. If FIRST is about learning and all, why bother to have nationals at all if all teams cannot attend the national collective learning experience? That is the central theme right? If its going to be a cometition than lets have that and do away with all these oh so sad "learning and growing" stories. If its going to be a learning experience then just stop complaining and quit throwing more money at disney and not have nationals, but wait that reminds me, only the teams with money will be there anyway so why even bother complaining. Yes I agree with Bill, saying unless you win you can just wait and go on your odd/even year is like saying, oh poor little ugly puppy, well find some blind sap to take you in. Now I'm sure you'll go off and write some post about how wrong I am. Go right ahead, waste your time.