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Originally Posted by piersklein
As a way of partially fixing this which requires little change: The Winning Alliance from whichever CMP event comes first will be given *free* entrance to the second CMP event where they will play the winning alliance thus crowning a world champion.
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The problem with the head-to-head isn't registration (I think we'd all be appalled if they had to pay $5K just to do a best-of-2 or so series). It's the cost of travel and hotels with less than a week's notice, pulling students out of school yet again, getting mentors off of work...
I'm also not sure people agree on how much of a partial fix this is, except that it's very little. I haven't read or heard anyone that's upset simply
that there are two championship alliances; they're upset that there are two because
process of getting them is totally...ahem. A final showdown is essentially a red herring in the debate, being both so easy to promote and schedule (while difficult to execute) and so meaningless to the central issues.
On the other poor hand, if this also actually meant that FRC will never bring back defense (through 2020), I think we all hope that we as a community can refrain from actually rioting at the Town Hall.