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Originally Posted by grstex
Fair enough. For the record, I've been a part of FIRST since '99, when they first went to alliances. Our teacher and 3 veterans quit because it "watered down" the competition.
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I agree with you and don't understand why people are making those arguments. The greatest part of champs isn't purely the competition. As you said, things like alliances and divisions already bring down the level of play.
What makes champs great isn't the robots, it's the people. It's Karthik's presentation, it's talking to 254's students about their robot, it's a strategy discussion with Kyle Hughes, it's seeing old friends, it's meeting all of the passionate and dedicated students and mentors from all the teams you've seen on livestreams for the past few months.
And this decision will take that greatness and cut out it's heart. Champs brings everybody together, this will split it in two.
You can't please all the people all the time. The rationale of "lots of people don't like it" is not a reason to stop doing it. - Karthik [more] 
12-04-2015, 21:47
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