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Re: 4 team alliances...
I think part of the motivation for 3 team alliances was to fit more teams into the Championship (purely speculation on my part, no info from the GDC to back it up). It allowed ~52 more teams to compete at CMP while still allowing 7 qualifying matches per team (actually less total qualifying matches). I don't think teams per match is a limiting factor in CMP capacity anymore since they could always play more total qualifying matches again.

So 4 team alliances wouldn't help expand CMP and as others have noted, it may not work well at small regionals. So I don't think FIRST will go to 4v4 anytime soon.
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