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Originally Posted by Budda648
What if they set up regionals where your team had to attend if every high school has a team. Or if everyother school had one. I see FIRST growing into absurdly high numbers like FLL. If that happens, then I would go crazy b/c it would be very tough for teams to make names for themselves. It's a good thing that FIRST is growing, don't get me wrong. But it's been tough for 648 to get a reputation in the FIRST community. And the numbers are getting so high for me to remember which team is which. (Reuse the numbers again for God's sake!)
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I can see the advent of preliminary qualifying competitions, similar to what many states have for FLL. In Michigan, you go to one of the qualifying tournaments, and about 1/4 advance to State. For FRC, this could be modified to have two weekends of preliminary tournaments to whittle the field down to about 1000 nationally, which are then eligible for the 30 or so larger regional tournaments. You would have to advance out of at least one preliminary tournament sometime before you are eligible for the Championship "Tier" system.
Alternatively, we may get to the point where teams are limited in the number of regionals they can attend.