Thread: Qualifying for CMP in the future
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Re: Qualifying for CMP in the future
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Originally Posted by Jacob Paikoff View Post
How about instead of 3v3 starting next year the games are 4v4. I know that that would mean an extra team from each regional would qualify, but having two extra teams on the field at a time would make up for the extra 50 or so teams that qualify.

In this system we could have upwards of 120 teams in each division and still play the same number of matches overall while including 160 extra teams.
The problem with going to a 4v4 game is the number of minimum teams you need for a regional would go up. Teams would play very often in a regional setting, where robots do need to be fixed from time to time. Not only would you need 32 teams per regional (4 robots within 8 seeded alliances), but the quality of the finals matches will diminish as robots with 2-8 records for a regional could very well play in the finals.
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