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Originally Posted by tim-tim
Currently shows 8 divisions at St. Louis 2017, same for Houston.
Why not have two fields per division and get the "best" of both worlds? More matches and more teams in a division.
Using 50 teams/division as the talking point for now, this would mean that 32 of the 50 move on to eliminations, or 64% of the teams. At what point does it take away from the "championship" experience?[size="1"]*SIZE] Most teams dream of making it champs and playing Saturday. We should continue to make it a position to strive for; versus, if we make it to champs we have a good chance of playing in eliminations. Each milestone in the season should be more challenging to accomplish. Most of this goes away of the divisions are more than 50 teams, but then it opens up a whole different story. 75 teams/ division, 600 teams per champs, 1200 teams between the combined champs; but I digress.
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Not sure if the links are broken but they are giving me an error.
Honestly I think four divisions makes the most sense. 2014 proved that it is entirely possible to give every team 10 matches, and it will not water down the elimination rounds as much. However, I wouldn't mind taking an idea from the VEX playbook in doing a 5 division system, with a round-robin Einstein tournament. 80 teams per division would be okay too.