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Posted by Joe Johnson.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 3/14/2000 6:34 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: No Changes at this point, PLEASE! posted by Pat Major on 3/14/2000 2:37 PM MST:



I am far from knowing what is in the hearts of men, but I did talk to a few FIRST folks after the Great Lakes Regional.

Here is my impression of FIRST's opinion on the competition.

FIRST is VERY happy with the outcome of the competition.

Basically, they believe they have found a format that allows teams with a HUGE variation in skills & resources to co-exist.

Teams that have large budgets, teams with no budgets, teams with 20 engineers, teams with no engineers, they all have to compete and more or less get along with each other on Friday and Saturday. FIRST really wants to encourage this getting along together thing.

FIRST was also happy with the excitement of the Elimination Rounds. I have to admit that, at least in the case of the Great Lakes Regional, these rounds were full of exciting clips worthy of the evening news.

SO...

I believe that FIRST is very happy with the system they have this year.

I know that there are a number of teams that really were hurt by the luck of the draw in the seeding rounds. But, this is always the case.

The question I guess is did this system have more or less than last year's system?

Also, can a better system be defined that has the attributes that Dean & Woodie & the FIRST gang want to keep?

All good questions.

Joe J.