FIRST Festival of Champions

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by EricLeifermann

Who is actually going to send their teams to this should they win? There is no incentive to attend this by the winning teams. If FIRST wants this to be successful they need to pay for the teams to travel. This will not be a cheap trip.

Originally Posted by EricLeifermann

We actually asked them not to split the championship into two super regionals. This Festival of Champions adds absolutely nothing to the experience of FIRST as a whole.

Originally Posted by EricLeifermann

How is this an extreme statement? 8 robots and potentially 8 other non competing teams attending an exhibition. The only thing this adds value is to the teams who can afford to actually attend should they qualify or live close. I would say the only thing worth going for would be the dinner at Deans house.

Why am I going to waste my time to watch the webcast? What are they going to give the general audience? Unless they add something of value to the audience with future announcements this idea is dumb. Call me negative if you want but if my team qualifies for this I will not attend.

We get it. You don't like this. The whole regional -> Champs -> Festival thing is bad. Would it help if we renamed things? How about regional -> super regional -> champs?

Originally Posted by EricLeifermann

This might be one of the worst decisions FIRST has ever made. They were doing so good too, actually listening to what teams wanted. This definitely wasn't what people have been asking for. Districts >super regionals > world championship . That's the route we should be taking l. Not this.

Someone is just never happy.