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Re: Proposal for the 2 Championship format
Just as a minor item, I'm not sure I'd have the promotion/relegation. I think it'd be just a little too confusing and cumbersome.
For example: A team one year finishes dead last in Premier, and is thus relegated to Challenger for the following season. They then win 2 events and an RCA: Are they still in Challenger, based on their relegation, or are they now in Premier based on their current-season results? Or, a team finishes in the top 50% of Premier, then suddenly ends up in the bottom of their events the following year (or takes a couple years off). Are they still Premier, or are they relegated?
I think the biggest problem with that system is simply the fundamental difference between Premier League and (whatever the 2nd-tier level is) and the FRC competition: In soccer, the team setup is, well, set. You KNOW at the end of the previous season where you stand. And then you're moved up or down for the next season. In FRC,who is IN the championship(s) varies wildly year-to-year. So setting up the promotion/relegation would only work for any given year to following year... and only for the teams that are attending in both years: AKA, World Champs, HoF, EI... who would, naturally, all be locked into Premier OR Challenger unless otherwise moved. You've got new teams, etc.
It's an interesting concept, but I would suspect that in practice it'll be difficult to work out.
The hard part about the whole split is to get a reasonable balance of the top teams, and a reasonable balance of "seeing new faces". And still crown a single champion. That's going to be really difficult.
My proposal: Deals only with "balance" mentioned previously. Single champion alliance can be dealt with later by a wide variety of methods.
If you go to one championship in one year, should you qualify for Championship the next year, you are routed to the other championship (barring extenuating circumstances and all). Anything beyond one year, you go to whichever one you're normally assigned to. And if there are a lot of teams bouncing back and forth, there's always the "random factor" that will randomly assign you to one or the other...
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