What percentage of FRC teams should attend championships?

[Caleb Sykes]

Originally Posted by gblake

And again, someone seems to want to ignore oh-so-many of the wise words Dean, Woodie, Dave, and so many others have tried to get them to absorb.

There is no need to attack me personally. I posed a question because I wished to gain a better understanding of others' viewpoints on this topic. Dean, Woodie, and Dave would be among the first to say that being inquisitive should be lauded. I am very happy with the results of this poll and thread, it has already helped me to gain insight on this subject.

You are worrying about the wrong thing if you (as your question strongly implies) think that FRC exists to put robots into matches, or exists to sift through the available robots and drive teams to find the "best" robots+drivers.

You got me spot on for this one. I do believe that "FRC the organization," that small handful of people working in Manchester, exists primarily to provide affiliated teams with a robotics competition. However, I believe that "FRC the community of teams," exists to inspire society to recognize science and technology. I don't believe that "FRC the organization" can inspire anyone. I do believe that they can provide opportunities for teams to generate their own inspiration.

If FRC develops a poor competition structure, which I believe they just did. They diminish teams' opportunities to inspire, which I also believe they just did.

I'm pretty sure that a very good answer to the question is, "Just as many as can fit into the largest feasible venue(s)."

That is an insufficient response. You will at least need to specify the number of venues for this sentence to mean anything.