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Re: Championship 2007 - Atlanta - What Needs To Be Improved

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Originally Posted by vadyr View Post
Thirdly, the divisions are too large. Having more divisions (i.e. six divisions) would lessen the amount of teams in each division and allow each team to participate in more matches. Scouting would be more manageable for less experienced teams. This year, there were six or seven regionals occurring simultaneously each week. Next year there will be 41 regionals in five weeks, averaging to over 8 fields a week. At least one week will require 9 fields. Thus, FIRST will have enough fields for each of the 6 divisions, two practice fields, and the Einstein field.
As I understand it, from talking to the IFI folks the issue with having more fields isn't not having enough fields available--it's not having enough radio channels to prevent interference.
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