Another thread got me thinking about how we could improve the championship event, and below is what I would propose when we next change venues:
The Championship has pretty much expanded beyond the point where it comfortably fits in one dome, we would be better served in a convention center style venue (The
Los Angeles Convention Center and the
The Staples Center or something similar) This would be the schedule:
Wednesday - Practice matches and the first qualification matches in 8 divisions 60 team divisions, in the exhibition halls.
Thursday - More Qualification Matches
Friday - Qualification Matches, Alliance Selections, Division Elimination Matches and Awards.
Saturday - Now we get to the fun part. At this point, we move everyone into the Staples Centre for the "Einstein" Division. All the teams from each winning alliance and the captains of each finalist alliance are part of this 32 team division. They play a handful of round-robin style matches in this divisions. Each team's QS is the sum of the points earned in the round robin with 1 additional QS point for each win that they achieved in their divisions (this helps sort the rankings and also handicaps the finalist team). Then Alliance selections and Eliminations for the World Championship
.
There are a number of reasons that I believe this would be a superior system:
- We now include an incredible 480 teams at worlds.
- Everyone gets more qualification matches
- We end with the absolute best talent in the world winning. (No more getting stuck in the wrong division).
- Saturday provides an awesome show that is watchable to a wide audience. Because the level of play is incredible and the number of teams is reasonable to follow.
Hopefully this inspires some interesting discussion,
- Alex