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Originally Posted by Doug G
I've been thinking a lot about the size of the Championships and the inevitable growth of teams. I agree with many that 8 FRC fields, probably won't work (I wish it could). Limiting the number of teams seems like a bummer since attending the championships is a huge motivation for many FIRSTers.
I guess that leaves one very viable solution and that is to design a game that extends the alliances to 4v4 or 3v3v3 . Doing so would most likely mean a larger field (40' x 80' - very doeable for the 4 fields that exist now) - can smaller regionals accomodate this? I think most can. Having 8 or 9 teams on the field at once would be quite a chaotic sight!! The new control system is clearly capable of this. In a 4v4 setup, each division could go to about 100 teams and you still get 100 matches per division and each team plays 8 matches.
So can anyone tell me why a change in the number of teams on the field for each match won't help solve some of these issues being discussed?
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The problem is the randomness of the game and adding more teams to each alliance would make it more random. I rather a 2v2 or even each robot competing independently rather than alliances. the competition is strongly skewed toward the stronger teams. there are a few strong teams and lots of average teams and no matter how good you are, you need to get really lucky to win, and that is a major problem.