[EricH]

Originally Posted by JB987

All sound great, Eric. Where do we get the extra week or two needed for this model? FIRST would have to break from the current time frame paradigm and add time to the front end or back end of the season, right?

You'll notice that I didn't mention anything about district championships...

Let's look a little closer at the end of the season.

Week 6: last district/regional events. Smaller DCMPs.
Week 7: DCMPs
Week 8: currently empty, but for the 1st split, this is CMP #1 by time IIRC.
Week 9: Current CMP, in future CMP #2.

But if you apply all those 4 championships +1 championship, you have Week 8 as CMP #1-4 and Week 9 as the Final Four (or whatever you actually call it.)

But what if... you moved all the DCMPs to Week 6, or eliminated them altogether (given that you've got enough districts to cover most everybody)? Now you've got Week 7 to play with. This could take some of the CMPs (though that could be a bit rough) or be used for fundraising.