[IndySam]

I think everyone agrees that the number of matches at Champs is a joke.
One of the ways to solve that is to reduce the number of teams attending but all I see folks focusing on is waitlist teams.

From what I have read hear most of you seem to think waitlist teams are the problem with quantity and the quality of teams, this is simply not true. Eliminating all the waitlist teams would have gotten you maybe 9 matches which would have made zero difference in the luck factor. Also the waitlist teams were not the reason for the quality problems, there were so few of them this year they were not the problem. In fact I would submit that many of them were quality robots.

The simple fact is the rookie awards and the golden ticket robots (second picks who ride on the coat tails of the winners) are the reason for the quality problem, not the waitlist teams. But can we deny these teams that did win a rightful spot at the Championships? Do we want to not let these rookie award winners come and experience what its about and get inspired? It's a difficult problem at best.

But I think the only real solution is the district system for some of the country and qualifying through super regionals for non-district teams. Then significantly reduce the quantity of teams at champs, maybe even give the rookie award winners their own division to play in. That or find a place (and volunteer base) to increase the number of divisions at champs.