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Originally Posted by Citrus Dad
I would hope that your team would learn a lot from other great teams at the Challenger event. For example, 971 and 701 whom you know well would have been at the Challenger event this year under system A. Our team learns a huge amount from them--they probably contributed more to our team than any other over the last few years. Are they not great teams? I expect that many other teams of their caliber would be at the Challenger event.
And you wouldn't have to win "every" event that you go to. In fact I can see how under systems B or C that teams that place high continually could go to the Premier event.
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I loved 971 and 701, particularly the incredible linkage the former used this year.
But if we deicded that anybody who seeds high or gets far in elims and all of those who won a regional were the only people who went to a "premier" championship, then it would feel almost fake to win a the "challenger" event. If all the winners go to one event, then the other event is left, not devoid of talent, but far more lacking in it. It would just be a really big regional event, except without 254, 1678, (probably) 971, etc. etc, and we get to see all of those teams at SVR. But 148, 1114, 624, I doubt we would ever get a chance to see in person without being among the winning group ourselves (in which case I would probably want to have a winner's championship to test our abilities against the best, ironically).