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Re: Championship 2008 - Atlanta - Your Thoughts Please

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Originally Posted by Rick TYler View Post
How about limiting each of the divisions to 50 robots? Over a quarter of FRC teams go to Atlanta, is that really necessary?
200 robots... Hmm... 6*44 (counting next year's regionals)= 264. That means that 64 teams won't be able to go who would currently be allowed to. That's through qualifying. This doesn't include the HoF teams or the legacy teams or the current champions (another 15-20 teams). Minimum size to allow for current rules for next year, worst case (teams don't overlap and all teams go) would be 284, or 71 teams per division. You'd have to change the qualification structure.

Or add more divisions, which means more time to do eliminations, which means less time at the wrap party (for those who go). Better scheduling would be needed.

Good idea, but under the current structure, impractical. Better start thinking of how to convince the GDC and others at HQ to implement this.
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