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Originally Posted by Billfred
This is what I've been advocating since the announcement. You can do two FLL/JrFLL events without any strife, because winning a championship tournament never was a golden ticket to World Festival. Some years, you are playing for a bid to an Open. So we'll roll with that.
Make one city the FRC Championship, make one city the FTC World Championship. At the FTC site, you hold the Good Guy Frank Invitational with 60-100 FRC teams. Some will opt to do it because it's closer, or the date works better, or they've got FTC teams that want to go, or maybe we invite some teams whose district points bubble burst--but you hold a full-fat, top-flight event there so you've got all four programs represented there. Do the same back for the FRC Championship, and you have an undisputed champion and four healthy programs with room to grow.
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This is my favorite proposal so far. One event is the undisputed FRC Championship with 600 FRC teams, as well as an FTC Open Tournament and an FLL Festival, and the other is the undisputed FTC Championship with however many FTC teams, with an FRC Open Tournament and an FLL Festival.
This is not a perfect proposal whatsoever- teams with world class qualifying FRC and FTC teams have to choose which of their programs deserves the true championship, and which gets the lower tier Open tournament.
However I think this is byfar better than both programs getting a lower quality championship.