[Rob Colatutto]

One other thing I was thinking about with the size of the Championship... Right now we have divisions of roughly 71-73 teams, so each team only gets 6 matches. I don;t think FIRST wants to limit that anymore more, so teams feel they get thier money worth and so you get some variety of scores for a better average. The only way to make the championship bigger is then to add more divisions and logically, that would mean making 8 instead of 4. That would give you a 600 team Championship (if the pits can hold it) ...But the issue is then volunteers like many people have said but also, the number of avalible frequencies on the IFI equipment. This is an issue i have never seen discussed, each field currently uses 8 channels, 8x5=40, the max channels on the oi/rc set up. 8x9=72, which means IFI would have to design a new field controller as well on top of any modifications to the robot controller. So no matter how big the venue is, the control system is another limiting factor to the size of the Championship.