[Tom Ore]

The discussion has lead my thinking off on a tanget. What happens in a few years when there are 4500 FRC teams and 100 regionals? It seems that these sorts of issues will only be larger. I'm wondering if FRC needs to split at some point - say an A league and a B league. The larger, more experience teams with more experienced students and mentors and better resources would compete in A league regionals. The smaller, less experience teams or teams that have lost experienced students and/or mentors would compete in the B league regionals. The A league would be the more competive league where designs and strategies are more closely guarded. The B league would be more informal, more between team mentoring. There would need to be some built in incentives to compete in the appropriate league - for instance maybe the B league winners don't get an automatic place in the championships. Sorry for going off on a tangent...