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Re: Championship 2008 - Atlanta - Your Thoughts Please

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Originally Posted by Doug G View Post
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?
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.
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