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If you doubled the amount of teams in the elimation rounds you double the time of the elimination rounds. That means that it goes from half a day to almost a full day. If they go back to a best of 3 match like 90% of people want thats a third more time. Basically elimination would be an entire day at NATs.
This year teams played 6 qualifying rounds. 1 bad round would cripple kill a team and after a second bad round they got a death certificate. If they had to cut the time of qualifying dwon to one day that means even less of a chance to show your worth. So theres 2 solutions. Extend NATs to 4 days or cut the number of teams at NATs down even further.
This is basic economics people. FIRST can't do everything. Extending NATs to 4 days would make it more expensive because of the extra night. Not to mention missing another day of school in many cases. Less teams means more teams have to sit it out. Everything has a price. You can't have your cake to.
I think that FIRST should strive to increase the number of qualifying rounds so teams have ample time to show there worth. Bad rounds will hurt a team less. Eliminations should remain the same. Just getting into the elimination is an acomplishment and it shouldn't be extended.
Further I would feel better being 1 of 60 teams not selected rather than 1 of 30 not selected. My last thought may not be politically correct but in my view its the truth. The top 8 teams are there because they are among the best. They then select what they view are the next 16 best teams. If anything diluteing the pool with 'lesser' bots would lessen the amazing rounds that the eliminations are.
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