FRC Blogged - Share your FIRST Story, and *Preliminary* Championship Match Schedules

[EricDrost]

Originally Posted by Wiifi

If the goal of FIRST is to inspire students and the Championship event accomplishes this goal, then why not invite more teams to the event if you can? The more teams you have, the more students that get inspired.

Originally Posted by Wing

It's all about inspiration until people start complaining about teams getting lucky schedules and seeding first.

The problem is that by overpopulating divisions, the teams that actually qualified get a lower quality event. There is a higher chance of a bad 1-8 seed captain that got a lucky schedule. We should be celebrating and inspiring excellence as a culture, not luck.

At least for the students and mentors on 11, we would much rather be beaten by a team that was better than us than by a team that was luckier than us. Relying on luck and losing is discouraging, not inspiring. Likewise, relying on luck and winning is less inspiring than winning based on ability and motivation to succeed.