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I totally agree with keeping the same qualification for next year just so its fair for the odd number teams.
As for letting everyone automatically qualify for Nats in the future, I don't know how possible that is. After we grow to having 800~1000 teams... How on earth are we going to put 800 teams together under one roof to have a competition? At some point in the future, there's no way we can fit everyone in there anymore, its just a matter of time. Having a qualification process is just a smarter way to handle the situation instead of making it first come first serve.
I agree that there are problems in the current qualification process... One John mentioned is that teams going to Nats one year have more chance to qualify for the coming year. Then there are the travel arrangement problem for teams at the last week of regionals to book hotel, get tickets, and everythings else to go to Nats with just 2 week of time.
In the future, maybe its just not possible to have teams play every other team, and justify being champion by beating EVERY teams. Not even sports team do that, right? Maybe we can only say, "this alliance is the champion because it won all the matches through out finals, which is more than any other alliances can do."
This is why I ask you to participate in this week's question... I am really hopping to get some good suggestions for what kind of qualification process we can do for Nats in the future, and why you suggest it.
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