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Re: Championship 2008 - Atlanta - Your Thoughts Please

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Originally Posted by David Brinza View Post
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??
With 44 regionals next year and ~ 20 teams with a slot already, here's the math:
6 teams/regional*44 regionals +20=284 teams currently qualify through past performance/regional performance. (Next year)

So how long would it take to max out? Add 1 team per year (HoF addition) and run some numbers. I'm going to assume steady growth of 3 regionals per year. For the 2010-2012 seasons:
303
322
341
and the next year, we're over the current team limit. Or, how many more regionals will it take? At 3 a year, it takes 3 years, so 9-10 more regionals (after the 2009 season).

Not all teams will come. But, there still won't be a whole lot of room for non-qualifying teams.

So for the next 3-4 Championship Events, the current system would work. But after that, either a different qualification method (e.g. super-regionals that you get to through regionals) or more (or bigger) divisions would be necessary.
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