[Basel A]

Reserving judgement for a moment, I'm curious as to how they'll handle the fact that this is 3 months after the two Championships. Do they allow teams to continue making robot changes, potentially having final matches with completely different robots? Or are the robots to be kept in bags (nevermind that this would suck, plus the teams would just use practise bots at home).

It reminds me a bit of college football, where teams are used to playing every week (with an occasional bye week), then for the bowl games they have a full month to prepare for one opponent. The better coached, better prepared team tends to win (in the regular season, talent plays a bigger role). If anything, this is more extreme.

Anyhow, that's just my 2 cents. Although I get how some people would be mollified by this, it doesn't make me any happier. My problem with 2Champs was never the part where we don't have a world champion alliance crowned. It was the part where half the championship teams go to one place, and the other half goes to a different place (which obviously isn't going to be solved).