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Originally Posted by IKE
Here is a little History:
The top 100 teams (top 100 according to number of plays in elims) comprise of 775 of 1608 spots. IE, there are 100 FRC teams that basically cover 50% of playoff/elims spots....
Division SF and Finals are even crazier numbers...
BTW this is basically your top 3%.
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This is perhaps the most relevant piece of information in this thread.
Even if 25% of teams could go to the championship in a given year, it is simply untrue that every team would be able to go within a 4 year period.
As has been pointed out, the Championship is much more about the show (for sponsors, media, etc.) than anything else. It has seemed that more and more, FIRST is focused on this one event and "improved" it with concerts, flashy displays (and paper airplanes?) while regionals in general have had less and less of this show aspect. How many regionals have official "team socials" on Friday night anymore?
What about this: NO CHAMPIONSHIP. Take the money, prestige, college row, displays, etc. and spread it around to the regionals. Give the 85% of teams that don't go to the championship on a regular basis a better experience. Nearly 50% of teams (or something like that) don't go to more than one regional. I suppose that this is what district champs are supposed to be.
Instead of making goal that the championship "experience" be something that a kid on a team experiences once in high school, make the event (regional) experience one that is as good, but happens perhaps eight times.
- Mr. Van
Coach, Robodox