Vote to change the format of FIRST.

[sgreco]

Originally Posted by exprg:melonhead

did anyone ever think that maybe there should be a limit on the competitions you can attend? i know last year in Minnesota, a team from Wisconsin had already had a position in the nationals and won that privilege again in the 10,000 lakes regional. personally, i don't like that they were able to take this chance away from another team.
i think teams should only be able to register for one competition and one only. that way everyone has their chance.

How is that fair?

If I want to go out and fundraise to compete in more than one regional, then how can you fairly stop me?

Let teams compete to the fullest level that they are willing to commit to. Never limit what a team can do, it's not fair to those that put more effort in. It's far more inspirational to compete more then once, so let teams do it. You learn a lot more by competing multiple times. If you only want to compete in one regional a year, nobody will stop you, and if people want to compete in more than one, then don't try to stop them either. If you want it to be fair, go out, fundraise, and compete in more regionals.

Team's that earn two spots in nationals, don't take spots from anyone. If a team wins two regionals, then that's just one more team that gets off the waitlist later, so they didn't take anyone's spot.