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Originally Posted by plnyyanks
Volunteers. Having twice as many fields would require twice as many volunteers to staff them. Now, I'm not educated about FRC's volunteer situation, but I'd say it's safe to say that it would be hard to get double the current amount to St. Louis.
Money. Having twice as many divisions would require twice as many field setups, twice as many sound/video/lights people and equipment. I'm sure it adds up.
It's the two things that drive the real world: money and manpower. If we can get a good supply of both, I'm sure FIRST would quickly expand the number of divisions. But it's rarely that easy...
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You brought up a lot of good points. They have 18 fields, and I'm pretty sure they usually have at least 9 regionals a week(1 extra for Einstein), which each need 1 setup, so the field problem doesn't seem like an issue. For the dome reservations, it is an extra 8 - 12 matches, so that would take more time, but not that much more. Especially if they reduced 18 matches per team(what it is now x 2 because of the extra divisions), to like 15, they would have even more time to do einstein matches.
In terms of manpower though, I can't see a solution. Soon though, we will get to a point where there are too many teams coming, that there is no other option. Hopefully, FIRST will be making enough of a profit from the extra teams coming to CMP, that they will have enough money to bring those extra people.