Preparing for the Town Hall Meeting on the New Championships Format

[AGPapa]

I’m personally very interested in hearing your ideas about how we may be able to arrange for final matches between the winners of FIRST Championship Houston and FIRST Championship St. Louis.

Personally, I believe this is the wrong point to discuss during the meeting. The issue isn't that they're two championship alliances, but rather that the whole FRC community will be split. I think the focus of the meeting should be see if there is a way to have only one FRC championship at one of the locations, and have the other be for FTC.

[Siri]

Originally Posted by AGPapa

Personally, I believe this is the wrong point to discuss during the meeting. The issue isn't that they're two championship alliances, but rather that the whole FRC community will be split. I think the focus of the meeting should be see if there is a way to have only one FRC championship at one of the locations, and have the other be for FTC.

Agreed. A final showdown would be nice and all, but it's really not the issue. At a meeting like this, it's just a distraction from the far more important and difficult to resolve problems.

Part of me is a little bothered that it was the only issue to make the blog post. It's mostly a red herring compared to the real and far more intractable challenges these contracts created.

My first suggestion: cross-event switching, e.g. where a Houston-bound team can trade places with a Detroit-bound one.

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by AGPapa

Personally, I believe this is the wrong point to discuss during the meeting. The issue isn't that they're two championship alliances, but rather that the whole FRC community will be split. I think the focus of the meeting should be see if there is a way to have only one FRC championship at one of the locations, and have the other be for FTC.

Agreed. While the "two champions" thing is a valid complaint, it's not like the problem is solved if everything is the same except for one "ultimate championship" match between these two alliances. Ultimately, it's the permanent fracturing of the FRC community that is the biggest and most obvious problem with this plan.