[jman4747]

Originally Posted by BrennanB

The point here is that Championships isn't the place to deal with this growth. (which by the way isn't even one of the reasons they gave us for expanding champs)

The growth will show up at championships as the number of teams and subsequently regional/districts increases and more total teams will thus qualify for worlds.

The district model has limits to how many tiers can be reasonably added and then this or similar would become necessary for the championships anyway. What this year has shown is that FIRST may be able to have two 600 team events which means a while before there are enough districts to necessitate tearing.

Perhaps they calculated that the tiers would eventually be more expensive and doing this first allows for the program growth to bring more funding over time to help pay for that? There are too many things we don't know about how hard FIRST is to run and we shouldn't throw them under the bus for it