Wow, what a shift in topic!
For the past few years, FRC has has picked up on sports analogies as a means of inspiration by making the games rather sportlike (half have balls, and most have defense), and has supported worldwide integration and sports-hype through the crowning of a single championship alliance each year.
This year, the game is definitely non-sports-like. I had accepted this as an anomaly, a one-year-in-four placement (rather than throwing) game. The introduction of two separate championships looks like a solid step into systematically diluting the
competition aspect of FR
C.
In a world with two (and later probably more) championships, I see two possibilities:
- Teams are assigned a priori to compete for a specific championship. This will result in two separate "Leagues" that (at present) will not have a "World Series" or "Super Bowl". It would also further confuse the "interleague games" when a team from one division decides to travel to the other division's turf. (Do you forbid this? OBTW, if you select based on event, what happens to teams that qualify in both leagues?)
- Teams are randomly assigned to one or the other championship as they qualify. This will probably result in even worse "over-pre-booking" of hotel rooms by the powerhouse teams (here defined as teams that reasonably expect to qualify for championships each year).
At the end of the day, there doesn't seem to be a solution to the latest solution, at least not yet.