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Originally posted by Joe Johnson
I have long been an advocate of limiting the size of the Nationals.
I believe that limiting the teams that qualify for the Nationals is in the long-term best interest of FIRST.
There are a number of reasons for this but I believe the best two reasons are that #1 it will increase the prestige of the event if the club is somewhat of an invitation only affair and #2 it will make the Nationals a more TV friendly event. I know I sound like a broken record to most folks who are regulars on these forums, but I believe that TV coverage of FIRST is (or should be) a major major part of FIRST's plan to succeed.
I don't know if or when FIRST will limit the size of the Nationals, but the sooner they can find a way to address the roadblocks to implementation, the better.
Joe J.
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One of the reasons I was against having limited teams going to National is that one of the best experiences going to National is meeting everyone around the country. I got to see robots from different regionals I heard from, and most of the people I met in the forum.
However, National seems to have grown so big that it is really hard visiting every pit and looking at all the robots. And as other people said, there are other problems with the Nats getting too large.
An idea I came up with is that why don't we make the size of the "regionals" larger, every teams going to a "super-size" regional will feel like they are playing in the divisional competition. Then we limit the number of going to Nationals with some method...
This way, people will still be able to meet a lot of teams from all over the place, and the size of National can become smaller without taking away a big part of experience for teams not going to Nats... Teams who can¡¦t afford to go to regionals AND Nationals will be able to attend a super-size regional without feeling too left out from not going to the actual national¡K