A new era for FIRST.....and mixed feelings

[KenWittlief]

This was discussed quite a bit at the beginning of the season this year - and FIRST has made their intentions pretty clear.

With 30 regionals you would have potentially 90 regional alliance winners and 30 regional chairmans award winners - thats 120 teams

if the championship accepts 300 teams that leaves 180 open spots

with roughly 880 other teams around the world who dont win big at a regional, 880/180 = 4.8 - so teams can maybe attend a championship once every 4 or 5 years

which means the way things are this year, every highschool student will at least have a chance of PARTICIPATING in the world Championship for FIRST at least once in their 4 years of highschool

which is more than you can say for ANY other HS sporting or competition event.

obviously when FIRST reaches its goal of every HS in the US having a team, we will no longer be able to do that - but Im sure state and regional championships will happen by then too.