[Monochron]

Rampant speculation time! I'm going to go out on a limb and say the "compromise" (if FIRST calls it that) will be to convert these two Championships into the long awaited Super Regionals after the first couple years. It's just crazy thinking, but it would fit much better with what we have been expecting and, I think, be a much better solution that wouldn't require such a huge financial commitment up front.

The timeline is hard to reconcile with this idea though. The fact that this is still so many years away certainly isn't what I expected.