[scooty199]

Originally Posted by PVCpirate

Supposing we have an 8 alliance Einstein next year, I wonder if FIRST will explore other options than a typical 8 alliance tournament. That format has between 14 and 21 matches, and this will likely be closer to 21 since these are division winning alliances. One alternative is the 8 teams are divided into 2 groups of 4, each alliance in a group plays the other 3, and the top alliance from each goes to the finals. This keeps the match count lower; there would be 14 or 15 matches.

Also, a note on VEX using a round robin, since they have 5 divisions, they really don't have a choice(besides not having 5 divisions). Any other system will give an advantage to some divisions.

Yeah they don't have much of a choice, but I really don't think it's implemented well. At all. When teams IN the Round Robin don't know what's going on really. There was too much extra stuff.

That smaller group play if done right can be ok. You could also just make it single eliminations.