The White House AID

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by James1902

One of which is getting 24 robots and drive teams, and a FIRST legal competition field, to the South Lawn of the White House. Oh and booking the White House South Lawn on Independence Day.

Originally Posted by Chickenonastick

Would the alliances be fixed? Or would there be qualification matches and alliance selections?

What if teams are unable to attend? What if it's raining?

Kind of missing the point. The White House thing is a canard; the deadline is the real proposition here.

Originally Posted by James1902

As cool as this would be I don't see it as being very practical, or for that matter, very beneficial to anyone. Why not take a whole off season to fix a problem instead of 8 weeks?

If FIRST commits to fix it in 8 weeks, and it's fixed in 8 weeks, great, everyone can get on with their off-season. If not, there's still lots of time to try new things; at least we'll expect a status report by July. But if we give them 8 months, they'll more than likely take 8 months. At that point, if it isn't fixed, people aren't going to be happy.