[Mike Schroeder]

Originally posted by Kevin A
That would be interesting, but who would go to a competition that only 6 teams are involved in?

Maybe offset the to compititions by a week, and the winner of the first one would then travel to the second one, for that last match.

That unfortuantly may cause some finacial problems, i can tell you right now that my team after a trip to one nats, cannot afford a second trip to a different, possibly more expensive place, plus i will bring up the issue of travel time, presumably my team does well and qualifies for this second trip we would only have 1 week to prepare, that would be very expensive
. plus, sending all the teams that won at one nationals, to another makes one national, a little more prestigious than another, which would make teams want to go to that nationals instead of the other. What i Think you need to do, is just have a regional Champions ships, insead of being a National Champion, you are the Northeast Region Champions, this means you have a potentail to have the championships grow, not just have a centeralize location that will prove difficult for expansion. The only problem, is the chairmens award, but then again, you can have the Regional champs, and then the next year, you can name the national Chairmens award, this still gives you the honors that come to chairmens, plus another level of comeptition.


But then again this is for FIRST to decide, but i think that with FIRST exploding like it is, somthing needs to be done in the near future to accomidat e the increasing amount of teams