A web-casted drafted selection process for the four divisions on Atlanta would be interesting, but I'm worried about the whiner squadron. They're the reason why we can't have nice things.
But let's say we can placate the whiners and anti-elitist/anti-powerhouse sentiments, and we're actually able to implement a drafting system. We'd need four "Chief Inspirers" to do the picking. But who could we choose? Would we want them to be FIRST leadership figures like Dean, Woodie? Or how about we randomly choose four Championship Woodie Flowers Award winners each year. Let's say the latter is chosen, and then let's have them do some kind of a challenge on the webcast, and the four winners get to be the Chief Inspirers.
Now that they get chosen, they make it into some kind of game show or similar venture where they get to make their division picks in rounds. Each round they get ten teams. Depending on how successful each Chief Inspirer is as their tasks, they get a set number of chosen picks and a set number of random picks. Let's say the "winner" of a challenge gets 8 chosen teams and 2 random teams; the 2nd place gets 6 chosen and 4 random, 3rd place gets 4 chosen and 6 random, and 4th gets 2 chosen and 8 random.
The challenge for each round is created by a specific Region of the country/world, with each Region having an identical number of teams. So you'll get the Midwest Challenge, the Canada Challenge, and New England Challenge, the Florida Challenge, etc. The order of the challenges would be randomized each year. The challenge should be something related to FRC and the specific region, and also something funny. Each region gets to select and vote on their Challenge each season prior to the drafting selection.
Because some challenges might not have a definite winner, there will be a judges panel. Let's say we get three of four other well known FIRSTers, plus Dave Lavery. Each of them gets a whiteboard for "feedback", not unlike the IRI talent show.
This goes through the eight rounds. If the initial selection of the Chief Inspirers takes six minutes, and each of the eight rounds take another six minutes, with a final six minute conclusion, that's a one-hour webcast program. If each round is cut to five minutes, then it allows for a brief commercial break between each round for sponsors who are sponsoring the Championship event.