**FIRST EMAIL**/FIRST Adds District Event Model Alternative to FRC Program

[EricVanWyk]

Originally Posted by Rick TYler

FIRST is a company providing a service for a fee -- this is "customer feedback," not "whining." I think your point would be better made if you didn't take shots at other teams.

Sorry Rick, point taken.

I attempted to use the word "whining" as short hand for "insistence that no team have an unfair advantage over another team, even if this means reducing the benefit to all teams involved". From my limited point of view, I see many instances where fairness is over or under weighted, and this type of request has the definite potential to be one such instance. No particular team would be hurt if EricLeifermann's team played as if they were in Wisconsin, but a Detroit team could use it to insist that they be allowed to play as if they were in Ohio. Rather than tell the hypothetical team to suck it up, the uP team could be penalized with very expensive travel.

I do believe that there are entities in FIRST that are whiny, but I also believe that the hypothetical entities are "whinier" than the real ones.