POLL: Champions League Opt-In

[Citrus Dad]

Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto

No.

I like working to "pull up" all the teams in our area, with the competition being a decent format to do that.

Opt-in reduces the opportunities for my team to do that.

But I suppose it would be awkward to not "opt-in" when many other strong teams have?

Maybe we would have to "opt-in", because the "opt-out" league would be completely boring.

However, I don't like the idea of dividing the FIRST family, more than Half-Champs already does.

-Mike

Ditto with Mike. Working with rookies and other teams with less resources at competitions is perhaps our most rewarding effort. Our GP award in 2014 at Newton is on at least equal footing with our championship. It certainly was the highlight of that year.

Remember that the objective of FRC is not to develop winning teams, its to instill inspiration for STEM as broadly as possible using the same type of excitement that other sports do.