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Re: Championship 2008 - Atlanta - Your Thoughts Please

I think that ~85 teams/div with four divisions each sending an alliance to Einstein will be the formula for the Championship for some time to come. Eight division fields and adding Einstein quarterfinal matches are just too much to accommodate from a space-time perspective (sorry for the physics pun) .

Conducting a set of four "super-regional" events prior to the World Championship is not practical since teams will require time to arrange travel and funding to attend.

As FIRST grows, the Championship event will have ever fewer "open registration" slots in order to accommodate the qualifiers (CA, EI, RA, and winners) of more regionals. The quantity of teams at the Championship will remain about the same, the quality will continue to improve. Eventually, maybe only regional qualifiers, hall-of-fame teams and prior year champions will participate in the Championship event. So, what will happen when FIRST has 100 regionals??
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