Your Thoughts on the 2005 Championship Eligibility Criteria!

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by Joe Johnson

In my opinion, the only reason against using them is that I thought FIRST was a little afraid of being associated with a city where gambling & prostitution are legal. But... ...if LV is good enough to host a regional, isn't it good enough to host the Championships?

Or maybe that is just part of the experiement - to find out for sure IF Las vegas is the right place to hold a regional...

All the previous discussions about Las Vegas as a possible venue for a FIRST event have drawn upon the "Sin City/Family Town" reputation. But no one has had any real DATA to show how well a FIRST event might fit in if held in Las Vegas - just speculation. What better way to find out if it would work or not than to just try it and see what happens. As Grandma used to say, "empirical data is better than no data at all." (OK, she didn't really say that, but it sounded good... )

-dave

[Joe Johnson]

Originally Posted by dlavery

Or maybe that is just part of the experiement - to find out for sure IF Las vegas is the right place to hold a regional...

All the previous discussions about Las Vegas as a possible venue for a FIRST event have drawn upon the "Sin City/Family Town" reputation. But no one has had any real DATA to show how well a FIRST event might fit in if held in Las Vegas - just speculation. What better way to find out if it would work or not than to just try it and see what happens. As Grandma used to say, "empirical data is better than no data at all." (OK, she didn't really say that, but it sounded good... )

-dave

Don't get me wrong. I think the Sin City aspect of a LV competition is manageable. I am just putting it the idea out there as topic of discussion.

Perhaps I should not have put the "camel's nose" comment in my post because it was more or less asking for it. But I am like a broken record on this lately with regard to almost everything that comes up on these fori:

Question #1 Does it compromise the mission of FIRST?
Question #2 Does it help us change the culture faster?

if (Ans1==YES) {let's don't do it};
if (Ans1==NO && Ans2==YES) {let's do it};
if (Ans1==NO && Ans2==NO) {let's do it if another benefit justifies doing it};

From my point of view, the answers to #1 is "not if we manage things correctly" and #2 is "probably yes"

Dave's point is that we can try it and see. I can go with that.

Joe J.