[Jessica Boucher]

Originally Posted by Jeffrafa

*Actually, as I think about it they tried to do a little of both. If you followed the registration process closely, you probably noticed that the events were initially capped around 28 teams. Part of this was reserving spots for rookies, but another part was to make sure no event got significantly bigger than what they expected the smallest event to be (after all, they were initially planning the district venues to support up to 40 teams) As we worked through 2nd round pick and into 3rd pick, they slowly freed up more spots, until settling on the 36 team cap. In the end the disparity remained because fewer 3rd plays signed up than anticipated.

We capped at 30 to begin with for this exact same reason. In the future I can see us setting the cap higher because we hit 30 really quickly in some events and the waitlist shuffle was time consuming. 40 really is the magic number in terms of match turnaround and points distribution, and we're going to keep pushing towards that.