Registration 2010

[Wayne C.]

Originally Posted by Greg Needel

FIRST needs to publish the waitlist for the championship and I encourage everyone to call and tell them so. I am sure that many teams are in the same boat with enough money to attend 2 events we would rather go to the championship rather than another regional, but don't want to risk not going to a second event altogether. Having had to make championship plans last min, I would prefer never to do that again. If they show us the wait list it will illustrate what our chances are, if you are in the top 25 on the wait list vs 200th it will give teams a better understanding of what their options on rather than putting it all to chance.

Greg- I don't think they really care about we who set up these trips since they fill up the event anyway. The list sure must be a big secret. As it often seems, we care more about doing FIRST than they seem to care about helping us.
However filling the regionals that would otherwise have empty slots should financially motivate someone to show the wait list so the "distant" teams can spend their money elsewhere in the FIRST world.

You know needing to win a spot in Atlanta kind of changes my motivations for playing this game...

WC