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Re: Qualifying for CMP in the future

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Originally Posted by 1075guy View Post
Going to a district system (at least, doing so the same way that FiM did) won't fix the problem that 80% of the seats at CMP are spoken for before the season even starts, but it might slow the problem down some.
How so?

According to the FiM website, 18 teams qualify for the world championships, out of the entire FiM district system. That is 18 teams out of a possible 171. Just over 10%. Now extrapolate that to the 2000 teams in FRC currently, you have just over 200 teams at the Championship. Plus the Oldies/HoF/Former Champion teams, you're looking at 230-240.

Seems pretty sustainable to me, until FIRST gets to be 3500+ teams. Thats a good problem to have.

Maybe we're talking about different problems. Or maybe I don't understand what you mean by 80% of the seats being spoken for.

It seems to me the moving to a district system just makes sense.

-Mike
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