[FRC Blog] Frank Answers Fridays: June 7, 2013

[TheMadCADer]

Originally Posted by IKE

I would actually love to see Isreal create the first Mini-Region. With about 48 teams, you could do 3 24 team events with 4 alliances of 3 elims. Teams would play at 2/3 events and then all would play at the Regional Championship. Very scalable in that format up to 60 teams (3 events of 40 with full 8 alliance elim). Much beyond 60 would get a bit tricky, but realistically that would take a while to hit that number. This would be a giant departure from the current format, but I think it would work really well for isolated area of the world.

I think they'd be well off focusing on building teams and events nearby in Europe. I'd bet they could have at least two full size regionals in Europe in two years if that was their goal. 4334 and the city of Calgary showed this year that you can do things like going from having just two teams (one a rookie) west of Ontario in one year to a successful local regional in the next. Growth doesn't have to take a long time.