Future First Championship News

[MattRain]

As much as I hate the Super Regional Set up that FTC has, I feel like it would have been a better idea than this.

Reasons I don't like the Super Regionals FTC has:
-Extra costs (registration, travel, hotels, food)
- Top teams from different states that get a bad pairing of qualification matches, which don't make it to world then. (Some can relate to this I think)
- Time off work/school. (This hurts after burning through paid time off when you factor in qualifiers, regionals, super regionals, Worlds)

Even with the reasons listed above, I feel it would be a better option than going with two different events. Phoenix AZ to St Louis is 1457 miles, compared to Phoenix AZ to Houston which is 1172 miles, not much less...

You lose the true feel of a WORLD championship. I would like to compete with everyone around the world, not just the South portion of the US/World....

I've been to 4 (5 this year) World Championships. My best year still has to be my first year as a freshman. Smaller, and more family feeling. It just doesn't feel right anymore. FRC decided to go up to 600 teams this year, to allow more teams to come to the WORLD championship, yet the FTC community is still only 128 of the best teams.

FTC has 3799 Active teams, only 128 go to the World Championships, 288 go to Super Regionals...

FRC has 3245 Active teams, 600 go the World Championships, No Super Regionals....

Why FIRST?? In short, have FRC go to a Super Regional Setup like FTC, as much as I hate it. It seems like the lesser of two evils... I want to know the real World Champion.