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Re: Question of the Week!!! (7/11/04)

I don't believe that we will ever outgrow a "Championship Event", but there should be a return of nationals. As of now, we have enough teams for a canadian nationals event and a USA nationals event.

As more teams come to be, and more countries get involved I believe that we need to hold nationals events in those countries.

I'm not talking in the next year or two, but somewhere down the line we are going to probably have about a hundred teams from each of the contries of Brazil, or the UK, or wherever.

I think it is just fair for FIRST to implement to them a Nationals event in their homeland. (Travel expenses is the biggest concern of mine for them)

FIRST is all about inspiring kids, but as a secondary result FIRST is growing every year.

As Mike Walker said, "... in the past the backbone of FIRST was that EVERYBODY could go to the Championship." While we have strayed from the biggest difference between FIRST and sports in that aspect, why not adopt a format that works for sports events.
As Dean once said (and I'm not going to quote this cause I don't know the exact words) FIRST is all the good things of sports events, without all the bad.

When something works in sports, then why not adopt it to work in FIRST's world.

Nationals for Canada, Nationals for USA, eventualy Nationals for UK, Brazil, etc... when the time is right, and then a final "Championship event" wherever.
Maybe the Championship event could switch countries.
(After thinking about switching countries, I realize that that could be a big logistics problem as far as venue, weather, or teams' individual logistics.)

I think in the end, holding the Championship Event in the USA is best for now, but we should somehow incorporate 3 nationals events soon.

One in Canada, One in the USA, and a last one in possibly NYC for the teams from Brazil and the UK and some US teams too..
I'm not sure about the NYC one.
We shall soon see...

Anyways, those are my thoughts on this subject. Feel free to pick them apart and give myself and the CD community feedback.
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