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Re: Actually-- less teams from last year..
Posted by Patrick Dingle at 1/6/2001 9:33 PM EST
Other on team #639, Red B^2, from Ithaca High School and Cornell University. In Reply to: Actually-- less teams from last year.. Posted by colleen -- T190 on 1/6/2001 7:59 PM EST: Wow... I just assumed that FIRST would have the same bracket setup as last year (8 alliances at regionals, 16 at nationals). 40 teams out of 350 or so.... that's about... 1 team for every 8.75 teams. That's not very many at all. 210 or so new teams. 8 less that go to finals. I think this is bad. All the other major sports leagues find it optimal to have between 25 and 50% of teams go to playoffs. Why is FIRST so much less? I still like the idea of divisions, although I don't like so few teams from each division. Patrick : actually-- the way it will work out is that there will be LESS teams in the finals at both the regionals and nationals... : 20 teams will move on at regionals as opposed to the 24 : 40 as opposed to 48 at nationals... : we asked Eric about this.. and he said that for regionals.. increasing the number of teams making to finals (remember the need for factor of 5 etc..) would make the teams needed for the finals BIGGER than the number of teams at some regionals.. : as well, at both reg and Nats adding another round of finals would lose many qualifying matches per team.. this allows more playing time for all in qualifying.. : --colleen |
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