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Re: Preparing for the Town Hall Meeting on the New Championships Format

I think I stumbled onto this thread before I stumbled onto others that are discussing general complaining, so probably some of my discussion should have gone in there. Sorry about that. In this post, I'm going to offer an actual suggestion that I haven't seen yet.

This is a long term suggestion, as I think at least 2017-2018 has certain elements set in stone that cannot be altered.

Have a single championship event, but add 1 or 2 days to the time of the event. Create a "preliminary round" in which teams are eliminated from the competition more quickly than they currently are.

In other words, today, we have competitions Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in which everyone competes. Then alliance selections happen and we have an elimination round. Change that to half the teams compete Wednesday, and some are eliminated. Others compete Thursday, and some are eliminated. The teams that are left come back and compete in a two day competition.

This is based on the observation that of all the constraints, I think pit space is probably the most difficult to deal with. One obvious downside is that it makes everyone stay an extra day, adding cost. Another is that it actually requires teams to move in and out of pit space during the course of competition. That's a major hassle.

The up side is that it retains everything we like about the competition that exists today.

A variation on this theme would be to add one or more secondary venues in the host city. Some teams compete in the secondary venues during the preliminary round. There are obvious down sides to that scheme as well, but it does solve some problems.
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