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Originally Posted by aspiece
So, would it be different if it was nationally televised on prime time television? I guess I think of another exhibition robotics event I am familiar with that crowns a "champion". I might be misinformed here.....
Overall, regardless of what it is called. The community will consider this the crowning of a champion and I would support such an assertion.
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No, nothing about this could be considered equivalent to Jon's comparison. Half champs are basically super regionals right now. in a regional-super regional-champs progression, super regional performance would qualify hundreds (unsure what FIRST's plan was, I would assume 200-400 teams) for a "true" championship. This is going to be 8 teams. Some of those 8 may not even be the winners of each half champs. Some may be the winners in name only, if they have new drive teams or cannot maintain their robots/practice between half champs and the festival of champions.
I don't take offense to the notion that this is a solution to no actual overall winning alliance, I just think it's disingenuous for Jon to suggest people are being pedantic and that this is the same as what we'd have if we got the original super regional-champs progression FIRST put forward years ago.
I would personally not consider this crowning a true champion. For me that definition would require something like all Einstein teams (ideally division finalists too) from each half champs meeting and playing quals/elims to determine a champion.
Realistically that's not going to happen and it's kind of awkward to in effect have two super regionals that are called "Championships" and marketed as being no different than they were before and then both the winners (and some losers) progress to another event that's actually the real championship where you end up with different World Champions than were champions at their respective "Championships".
That being said I'm certainly more excited about this, even with whatever flaws it may have, than just having 2 half champs winning alliances and ending there.