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Originally Posted by EricH
Let me ask you this: This whole competition is about inspiration (as well as winning). Would YOU, personally or as a team, be inspired by winning multiple events and then being told "Sorry, because you didn't do well last year, you can only go to the Challenger event, and you can't compete for the one true World Championship at the Premier event"?
And for the Super Regional model... What I see (obviously, this would be in about 5-6 years) is that the District Championships will disappear, being replaced by Super Regionals. Two Championships become one, held in some city to be determined (BTW, you should be including Indianapolis in your list). It's possible that the DCMPs move back a week, compressing the competition season, but I regard that as unlikely.
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Remembers teams would already know if they were eligible for the Premier or Challenger champs at the START of the season. They would already have that expectation baked in. So they wouldn't face the disappointment that you're envisioning. And they also would know that they need to build a consistent program over time to advance.
But that said, I'm hearing enough reservations about system C that it may not be workable--it was just one of my 3 ideas. And I think there's probably even better systems out there.
As for the Super Regionals, I'm not seeing the path back to a convergence to a single championship once they move to a dual championship. Why would one of them fade away unless that one was already subservient in some fashion to the other? I think instead, as with the fight to form the BCS, interests would form to preserve the two championship mode. And like the proliferation of football bowl games in the 70s and 80s, we might see even further diffusion, not consolidation. Isn't that one of the laws of thermodynamics.
(And thanks for adding to the list of indoor stadiums.)