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whoa

Wow, this is a LONG thread, so I haven't had time to read all of the posts. I hope I'm not posting anything that has been mentioned already.

I agree that it might be difficult to change things this late for this year, so perhaps waiting for next year would be good, but then again, we had even teams 2 years ago, odd last year, so it wouldn't be fair to have even teams go this year and then change it before the odd teams get to go next year.


%%% CRAZY PROPOSAL %%%%%%%%

I think that the majority of the spots should be based upon the current year, with just a little bit guaranteed from history. However that might make it difficult for travel arrangements.

Here is what I would propose (I know it's quite a bit away from the status quo, but I think drastic measures will be needed before too long, so why not start now?):

1) Hold the kick-off the 2nd Saturday in September. This gives teams 2 weeks to organize a team (most schools start the last week of August now).
2) Robots must ship near the last Tuesday of October (six weeks plus 3 days - same schedule as now).
3) Hold regionals all through November and first two or three weeks of December (skip Thanksgiving weekend). If necessary, hold regionals the first couple weeks of January.
4) Schedule the Championship during its current week. That way, there is at least 3 months (maybe 4) for teams to book travel once the regionals are over.
5) Teams that get to go to the Championship are chosen as follows:
a) X number (say 300 teams) - history teams = Y teams
b) rank the teams based upon a point system for the CURRENT year.
c) the top Y teams in the points get to go to the championship.

%%%% END CRAZY PROPOSAL %%%%%%%%%%

Dave, I know that is a little more detail than you want, so here are the meta- criteria:

- Base the criteria for the Championship mostly (say 80 - 90%) on the current year.
- Line up the schedule to be more throughout the school year - a year-long thing with a break in the middle.
- Give teams a LOT of time to book travel arrangements instead of making them scramble if they qualify at the last minute.
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