[Kpchem]

Originally Posted by JB987

Looks like FIRST has been busy brainstorming reconfigurations. Check out slide 8...

http://www.nefirst.org/2012/07/28/town-hall-meeting-ct-recap/

Not crazy about what appears to be a disproportionate allocation of CMP slots for international teams in the near future.

What scares me more than anything else about that model is the number of events it would require teams to attend. Under this system, a team that attends CMP is looking at five events. 2 districts + district CMP + SuperRegional + CMP. I understand that there are teams that do it right now, but IIRC fewer that number is below 10 teams, and most of those do it by choice (i.e.: MI/MAR teams that choose to go to an outside regional), and this new systems has over 200 teams doing that.

That's a lot of time for students and mentors to miss, no matter how you look at it.

Having said that, I like the idea of a smaller 240 team CMP. It leads to having divisions where you can actually play with/against most of the other teams, which you can't currently do now with 100 team divisions.