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Originally Posted by Joon Park
... sooner or later, divisioning may become more necessary as the size of FRC grows. ...
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Originally Posted by FrankJ
So how would this work? Divide the field into classes? ... Handicap in some way the higher performing teams?
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The experiment with tier-based qualifying schedules in 2007, now
infamously recalled as the "algorithm of death", clearly showed how NOT to accomplish this.
I am not convinced that FRC will ever really need to divide teams into tiers. As EricH pointed out above, one of the game design objectives is to allow participation by teams with widely-varying levels of resources.
My experience has been that the resources (money, space, mentors, ...) a given team can muster sometimes vary widely from year to year. There can be many reasons for this. As others have said, school size is not among the more significant reasons.
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