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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Up until 2002, basically everyone did go to Nationals (what we know now as Championship). For anyone interested in some decade+ old opinions on this change, this thread is worth perusing:
https://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=664

If #2Champs was announced just 12 years earlier, it sounds like it would've been met with thunderous applause.

Originally Posted by Wayne C.

To say the nationals are a true championship is false because many of the teams will be there simply by being in the right year. The event is an invitational plain and simple. To compare it with the events you mention above is ludicrous.

The goal is to encompass ALL the high schools in the nation yet we restrict the big event to 300 teams. Thats the problem. 400 WOULD be better, 800 would be better still. What's the limit? Who knows. But if nobody ever looks it expand the event it will always be 300.