What would you do to improve the FIRST experience?

[Michael Corsetto]

Originally Posted by rsisk

Lower the cost of FRC events and increase access (Districts is one solution)
FLL increase access to more events, 1 QT is not enough

Amen!

Jim Zondag points out that although FRC has scaled up, the registration price has not scaled down. This is a shame. Lower registration would help a lot to keep FRC growing.

Regarding your second point, NorCal does not have QT slots for all the registered teams in our region. Last year, we had nearly 20% more teams than available QT slots. Eight of our FLL teams didn't get in to a QT. Apparently, it is fairly common for a region to have more teams than QT spots, at least according to FIRST HQ.

We're switching the 24 FLL teams we started in the past two years to VexIQ because it is cheaper for our teams and easier to host an event, among other things.

-Mike