[EricH]

Originally Posted by David Brinza

Six teams per regional is a worse-case scenario. In reality, there are teams that will win more than one regional, or hall-of-fame teams, past champions, CA and EI that will also win one or more regional. That could prolong the inevitable change in the Championship qualification criteria or format.

I agree that that's a worst-case scenario. However, I think that at the outside, 2 more years (above what I figured) would fill Championship to capacity by filling any empty slots created by double-qualifying or not showing up. So that's 2014. Not that far away, is it? If we don't come up with possible solutions now, we'll have to then. It's a lot easier to fix something before it breaks than after.