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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
More than anything, that's the result of playing 12 matches per team at a 31 team event. A new "round" starts every six matches, leaving little flexibility when intermixing teams while still maintaining minimum gaps between each teams' matches. As a result, you're going to get even more overlap than usual.
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We're getting off topic, but I think you can look at Indiana and Michigan as both having district systems that REALLY test the definition of "scalability". The systems work and give teams a lot of things they want, but they both run into really weird problems. IN can see the 5th best robot in the state miss worlds while something like 20 teams in Michigan can miss the expanded MSC elims and still make it. They have also backed themselves into some pretty interesting scenarios. IN teams practically have to leave the state if they don't want to play everyone in the state 3 times a year and FiM is having this "problem you would love to have" where they have to use a facility twice a year to run their 4-events-a-week-for-6-weeks schedule in a suitable manner.