First, I must say that the Championship was absolutely amazing last year. The experience was great, the tournament and just the atmosphere were all really exciting.
There's one small issue I feel needs to be addressed, and that is the amount of matches teams play. Last year it was 7 per team, and I think it should be a lot more, because more matches means more accurate seeding. Teams would often be seeded inaccurately. I'll use 217 as an example. They were seeded 17th in Archimedes, and were clearly not the 17th best robot in the division. Now they did end up winning the Championship, so this is not to say that good robots don't get rewarded. I want to know what ideas people have for increasing the number of matches at the Championship. I know the logistics are crazy with so many teams at the event, but there's got to be some way to get more matches in.
An obvious solution would be to increase the number of fields. I can't picture exactly in my head the dimensions of the Georgia Dome, but it seems like two more fields could be squeezed in. Put Da Vinci and Einstein down at one end of the field, and have the six FRC fields condensed a little bit.
Any ideas?
(I know there has been some discussion on related topics
here and
here but I felt that this needed its own thread.)