**FIRST EMAIL**/Please give us your feedback on FIRST Announcement of 2 Championships

[Chief Hedgehog]

Originally Posted by Chris Hibner

I'm definitely on team "I want only one championship", but I thought the survey was very fair and quite well written. I applaud FIRST for doing this.

If I were to predict what the company line will be at the town hall meeting, here it is:

1) "The response from the survey was that the community would prefer a single championship event such that it is a true championship"

2) "Sometimes change is hard. People thought alliances were a bad idea at first, and there were a lot of people against districts at first. But now those are well accepted in FIRST.

3) "Therefore we're going to stick with the plan for now. We'll pilot the dual championships for 3 years and re-assess everyone's opinion after giving it a try."

I am surprised at your response. To me it seemed that the survey was constructed with questions that only helped to support the decisions that were already determined. Maybe I was too pessimistic - but the survey seemed to slant in the way of trying to justify the fore coming structure of FIRST.

To each their own!