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Re: Championship Location Announced
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Originally Posted by Racer26
I was asked why I think CMP needs to be bigger than 400 teams by several people above.
CMP has already reached nearly 100% saturation of merit-based teams. Additionally, this doesn't account for the other merit-based qualifiers (Sustaining, HOF, and reigning champions, reigning EI winner)
At this point, you either have to start qualifying fewer teams, which is difficult to do fairly, or make CMP bigger.
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Which is why FIRST is moving towards Disricts. In a few years, we may well find ourselves with a Super Regional Model as well. The District Champs would play in a Super Regional, say one in the 4 quadrants of the US, northeast, south east, mid west and west coast for example. Then the teams would qualify for Worlds from the Super Regionals. World Champs would still be 400 teams.
From a venue perspective, where else would be an appropriate venue? What city has a domed stadium with a huge conference center attached with 25,000 hotel rooms within wlaking distance?
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