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Originally Posted by Squillo
I had this great idea and posted it in another thread and only one or two people have commented on it and I'm just dying to know what other folks think. Since this thread seems more active and I'm very impatient, I'm putting a link here in hopes of getting some feedback on my idea for improving the new "two championship" idea. So here it is.
If there's even a tiny bit of interest in this I have a whole 'nother post (ready to post but I didn't want to seem too hyper, which I know I now am so what the heck) with my analysis of what it will cost FIRST (somewhere between $500,000 and $1,000,000) and why.
I mean we're a bunch of "engineers" (OK, I'm actually a lawyer, but I just engineer solutions with words instead of stuff or code), why aren't we all over the place with solutions for this? I thought the "preparing for the town hall" thread was the place to do that but it seems folks would rather hang here and spout opinions than actually propose a lot of ideas (there have been some). Well, I had one, what do you think of it? |
I think it is a great idea. But I'd rather see the following (some teams have restrictions on how much school students can miss and other restrictions).
Assuming all districts (or mostly all districts). A world championship and a "US Open" (similar to what FLL does). Send some teams to one and some to the other based on certain criteria.
Maybe that is the winners on the field and Chairmans/ei/ra-s to one event, and all the other wild card/district points teams to the other.
Maybe it's just the alliance captains of the winning alliance and Chairmans/ei go to one and the rest go to another.
Or some other combination. Have one "real" world championship and have one more of a FIRST festival or "World Open" style.
Either that or put everyone in districts and go back to only inviting 6 teams from each district championship. But I'm liking that idea less the more I think about it.
I think FIRST has outgrown one venue. It is impossible to do an 800-team championship. But 400 teams just doesn't fit the size of FRC anymore. We have doubled in size since I joined 8 years ago. I think what I mentioned above is a reasonable solution. I've seen a number of people on here advocating for that.