[Kevin Kolodziej]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

You do realize that going to a 2v2 format would mean teams give up 1/3 of their matches, right? events with 12 matches per team would be down to 8, 9 matches would be down to 6. Something tells me that's not how they want to go.

Yep, of course there are tradeoffs. Like I said, with a 50 team division, its not so bad. A 60 team regional is horrible. 35 team districts actually sounds pretty good - fewer matches yes, but longer time between those matches, meaning some of those lower caliber robots might be better since they have time to repair. Not in a district, so maybe its not an issue. I dunno. I'm just spitballing here. Could also change the match length, go to a smaller field, two fields, etc. There are ways to make it work. Personally, I LOVED '99 and Double Trouble with two fields at all events with 4 robots on each. Kept things moving quite nicely.

As for 2v2v2... that could work for a 6-division championship format, but what about regional/district events? How do you make it work with 8 playoff alliances? Or would we have to decrease that to 6 as well?

Many options here. 6 alliances. 7 alliances with 1 getting a bye. 9 alliances and more teams get into the tournament. Change the format for the elims (at least in 97 and 98, they played 1v1v1 in quals but changed to 1v1 in elims). It's fun to think beyond the now stale 3v3 "standard".

If you're going with a round-robin type format for Einstein, you can do that with a normal 3v3 and 6 divisions, no need to change the game format for it.

Sounds good to me.