[GeorgeTheEng]

Originally Posted by rick.oliver

As someone posted, the objective would be to get more teams involved in the Elimination Rounds.

The question is whether that is an objective that would help or hurt the level of competition. I personally think more qualification rounds are a better way to go because most likely (not defintely) the more qualification rounds an event has, the better chance the luck element is a reduced factor in the rankings. Therefore the allaince captains should be the stonger teams.

The question that should be asked is what is the purpose and value of the alliance selection and elimination rounds? Does having more teams participate raise or lower the value? I contend that in more division with fewer teams (or more alliance captains) lowers the value. At Championship teams need to make a significant effort to make themselves known, to scout effectively, and to be that team that everyone wants because of what they can do and who they are. Are those skills going to be as important when you go from an elimination round with less then 1/3 of the teams to an elimination involving 60% of the teams?

Everyone wants to participate in the elimination, but I think that there is value in keeping the number of teams particpating down.

(This is all independent of the fact that Sat at Championship seems to drag on fairly well as it is...)