Qualification for Disney in 2003

[Anthony S.]

originally posted by Ben Mitchell:
When clueless/inexperianced teams lower the scores of good machines, everyone loses.
(Whoa, Im going to make people upset with this one)

You probably will make some people upset with this one, I'm not upset though(maybe because I'm not a rookie team ) but I disagree 100%. I think it would be an awesome experience to be able to attend a nationals, especially your rookie year, it gives you something to look forward to, though my team wasn't a rookie team last year, I was a rookie, and I really enjoyed nationals and look forward to it this year and I hate that I may miss it next year because of the new system. But like I've heard many FIRST speakers say "Everyone is a winner in FIRST". So I really don't think winning the competition is THAT important, sure it would be really cool to win a competition, but I think its just as fun to be involved in FIRST and attending the event.