[FRC Blog] We're Listening

[Justin Montois]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris

Ugh, as much as I like Frank, this blog post just confirmed most of my biggest issues with the whole concept. Extremely disappointed.

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

After reading this blog post, I feel 0% better about this whole situation. FIRST has totally swung and missed on this.

Originally Posted by StAxis

This. This goes directly with the whole core of "raising the floor" of the competition. Two championships is much less inspirational than one, very little of my frustration with the situation is about the two top alliances playing each other, and that is the only thing that they seem to think it's about.

This championship format is less inspiring and provides less inspiration for science and technology. The solution, in my personal opinion, is to make DCMPS's and SR's more inspiring. Raise the floor, don't lower the ceiling.

I agree. I'm sorry but I just cringe every time when I hear; "It's not about the robots"

Championship should be a place for the best teams and robots. If other events aren't inspiring enough then work on that.

The Varsity "Sport" of the Mind needs to have a Championship that follows the model of other sports. The teams in the Championship earn their way there. The teams not there work hard and try to get better so they can be there one day. Teams that aren't good enough, they don't get to go. I'm sorry but that's real life. That's the mindset that needs to be propagated in my opinion.