2013 Lessons Learned: The Negative

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> I would much rather see eight 50-team divisions, 10 qualifying matches and a quarter-final round at Einstein.

This is a hard solution to provide, but this is an attractive way forward on what seems to be the consensus biggest negative and probably the only way to even incrementally expand CMP (not that there aren't other considerations that might preclude this). One possible approach would be to run two divisions on each field, one in the mornings and one in the evenings. This would shorten the days for teams and reduce the number of people around for at least some of the time, but would require more volunteers (possibly for two shorter shifts in longer days). At the same time, everyone would still be at CMPs and there would be enough overlap that it would be one event.


It is really hard to justify a ranking system where wins and losses are not the top-line criteria, but maybe there is a way to reflect strength of schedule somewhere in the rankings. Individual team offence/defense can't be kept like the score, but maybe some scouting stats could be considered.