Future First Championship News

[jman4747]

Originally Posted by Boltman

Its not about you or your team and the numerous wait-list spots with the 50% expanded field of 2015 (FIRST created that) ... its about sensible growth and geographical "fairness" that reflects the world and FIRST'S mission statement.

North/South was settled 150 years ago. FIRST has an obligation as a non-profit to make sensible moves that benefit its customers, not just grab more entry fees, bolster Andy Mark and hotel chains and weaken the competition level.

Thats in essence the root of the questioning going on here.. it does not add up to any good future move.

So now we think FIRST is a big corrupt organization that doesn't care about us and is being driven by a small business and the hotel industries of Detroit, St. Louis, and, Huston? And we think NI, Lockheed, Qualcomm, Raytheon, NASA, DARPA, Novelis, Honeywell, etc etc etc would all still be supporting it given that?

And if it's not about the wait list and other non-regional winning teams who is "weaken the competition level" referring to?

Look at the distribution of teams and available location and it pretty much has to be north/south. FRC is more NE/SE heavy if you split it east west you'll more likely end up unbalanced in numbers or distance.