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Re: 2013 Greater Toronto East Regional

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Originally Posted by Mr. Lim View Post
Atonomous is obviously frustrated.

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I definitely agree with your post. While I think the Wild Card system might seem like a godsend to great but not super-elite teams in your province, there is still more work to be done. Since FRC has ballooned, a lot of quirks have been found in the regional system that are more like drawbacks.

Not to make this "about me", but regional sizes are not fixed, so you can have regionals as small as, let's say, 32 or 35 teams, or as big as 65 teams. An area that has two or more smaller regionals benefits more than one big regional. However, the benefit is "neutralized" when the super-elites sign up for all of the smaller regionals in that area.

I know the "it's not about the robots" police might attack me for talking about the way we hand out chamiponship bids, but Championships is harder to get into now, and the event itself is about more than the robots. Not every team should go, but plenty of teams that are deserving of a spot have been left out to dry by fitting the square peg that is the traditional regional system into the circular, eye-of-a-needle sized hole that is a spot for a team at CMP.

Would this be a place to ask why Ontario has never moved into a district system? It could even be an open district system, and maybe allow for cross pollination with FIM, NEFIRST, etc...