Championship 2014 Proposal

[Tetraman]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris

I also put my vote in for how awesome this would be. Would you run this tournament on one central field?? or two (four?)??

This would make scouting really tough. You would basically have to scout every division...

The first, second and quarterfinal rounds would be played on the seperate 4 fields with the semifinal and finals on Einstein. That's exactly how it is played out currently, just we don't have a large extended bracket. Division Finalists are the Championship Quarter-finalists already, we don't don't call them that.

It would make scouting a bit wonky, but that is why I set each division up against themselves first, that way scouts have two or three matches to see what teams can do before they go up against them. And there is the thought of so many teams having to swap seating before the elimination matches and letting everyone know which Field they will be moved to. That can't really be fixed.

However if a change to how the elimination matches are played is something FIRSTers are looking for (and I'm not sure it is), this is an easy change that wouldn't take additional time than is already slotted and end up a more interesting tournament allowing top seeds from same divisions a shot at the prize.