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Originally Posted by AGPapa
I don't think "most people" would say that, and the OP definitely didn't. He said "improve the Championship experience for everyone", not just the few teams that make Einstein. Many teams want to play with the best in the world, not watch them compete in another division.
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I agree. The problem with division stacking is not who wins the title, but rather who gets the opportunity to play for the title. The best example is this year comparing Curie to Newton. There were teams in Newton left off playoff alliances that would have played on Saturday in Curie if divisions were more balanced. And the Curie division winning alliance clearly wasn't up to the level of the other division alliances on Einstein because it didn't have a deeper pool of teams to draw from.
I too like the segmenting approach to assigning. It's really only a variation on what FIRST is already doing.