[George Nishimura]

Frank's Blog Post from above opposes the reasoning for having two championships. To compare, in the reasoning for having two championships they said they wanted more teams to attend because of its transformative experience. In last year's blog post, he speaks of "cutting eligibility" and re-enforcing that the RAS does not become an "automatic bid" to championship for regionals with very few rookies. If the long-term goal was to give more teams a transformative experience, isn't a rookie team a fantastic candidate?

I don't see how people are reading the blog post and seeing this announcement, except the realisation that the current structure is unsustainable, which has always been known.