Preparing for the Town Hall Meeting on the New Championships Format

[MrRoboSteve]

Originally Posted by PAR_WIG1350

This is even more reason why FIRST should have consulted the community BEFORE it agreed to anything. Now FIRST will have to choose to spite either the host cities or the teams. On one hand, pulling the bait-and-switch on the the host cities may be damaging to FIRST's negotiating power. On the other hand, the teams are the customers to whom FIRST is providing a service. There is a limit to how much your customers will put up with before they decide that the service is not worth it.

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***The idea of FIRST causing geographical segregation is quite unpleasant, to say the least.

Alan, if you read CitrusDad's original post, this thread is a problem-solving one, dedicated to developing alternative proposals to make at the town hall meeting. One way you can distinguish serious discussion from venting is whether it includes emotionally loaded statements like spite, bait-and-switch, and segregation. Those words are fine if you want to let off steam, but they will cause the decisionmakers at the Town Hall Meeting to discount any ideas you have.

Please use this thread if you want to vent.