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Originally Posted by Brandon_L
This might be a good point to start some constructive discussion.
I'm also a fan of the district->district CMP->super regional->CMP concept. The only true concern I have with it is the amount teams will most likely have to spend in just registration costs for 4 tiers of events assuming they go all the way. If any one of those tiers (or more if FIRST wants to be nice) were free for teams it could work. Perhaps district CMP? 5k/year for the entire district model sounds fair. Meanwhile less populated areas still in regionals would pay the same amount with one less tier, dropping DCMP and just having a single regional with winners moving on to the super regional.
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This is a great point... particularly for Districts..... Another level of qualification for District teams after playing in 3 events? and paying as if you had been in 2 regionals... Why not have Super Regionals for non-District teams and use the District CMPs as the "Super Regionals" for the teams in Districts? This would mean that all teams would go through a set of qualifiers to get to CMP. Right now... it is $5000 to enter and $4000 to play at District CMP...just like attending 2 regionals.
For Super Regionals... if a team qualified at a regional to go to Super Reqional they could go for the same cost.... 2 regionals would cost more..of course.