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Originally Posted by SpaceBiz
This might seem crazy, but hang with me on this
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I like the idea of alternating plays between adjacent fields. The audience gets (almost) non-stop action, teams get more plays, and to some extent you can re-use volunteers (ex. non-head refs and field reset). Still certainly more than 1x the number of volunteers you need to run 4 fields, but hopefully less than 2x. Keeping the number of teams per division down is also good for letting more teams make elims, albeit with a shallower pool of talent in each division. Observation: With ~64-75 team divisions at a World Championship, you run the risk of having very watered down eliminations unless you eliminate the serpentine draft (even if it is just for this event).
The idea of playing a bunch of extra inter-league matches between two separate alliance selection periods...not a fan. Teams would have some really mixed incentives during the intervening matches, and it adds complexity without addressing any real problem.