[FRC Blog] We're Listening

[Siri]

Dear Frank,

Thank you for listening at this point. However, I think many people would appreciate it if you didn't just listen now, you explained. Why was this solution chosen? How was the problem(s) it solved defined? What other options were considered? What was done to assess the best interests of teams? Who was consulted, what feedback was taken? Why was this process kept secret until after venues and dates were set? Is anything in the press release alterable? How can this model scale long-term? What are the future plans/alternatives?

In particular, what's the reasoning behind splitting Worlds to make two half-world inspiring events, rather than focusing on making the already planned/created next-tier events more inspiring? With this change slated for the FRC district conversion goal date (2017), why not up the quality of DCMPs (and the J/FLL and FTC equivalents) to something approaching what is now going to be Half-Worlds?


I'm cross-posting this to his Blog comments.