Future First Championship News

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by dodar

Congratulations Oakland Raiders on a wonderful regular season, you now get to compete in the 2nd NFL playoffs with the NFL-Europe teams.

I doubt anyone associated with them or their fans would be as excited.

This is quite literally how the Europa League works in European soccer. Finish in one of the top 4 spots in your division? You go to the Champions League (top level cup competition). The next two spots? Europa League. Both competitions are taken fairly seriously, and at the end there is a match between the champions of the two (The European Super Cup).

Not saying that it is necessarily the right thing to do for FRC, but there is precedent.

[KelliV]

Originally Posted by Jared Russell

Not saying that it is necessarily the right thing to do for FRC, but there is precedent.

Several orgs do it that way. It's great.

Competitive Cheerleading (which I have coached for 14 years now) does the same thing, with NCA/UCA/The Cheerleading Worlds. Place at the top of those and you get invited to The Champions League. Top 15 teams are filmed and then it is shown at AMC Theaters across the country.

Cheerleading also holds an invitational championships at many levels, place well at the invitational and you get a bid to the full championships the next week. The invitational has the same rules/venue/experience, it is just a different level of competition. It allows those who just missed champs for whatever reason a chance to work their way up to the top.

[faust1706]

Originally Posted by Jared Russell

This is quite literally how the Europa League works in European soccer. Finish in one of the top 4 spots in your division? You go to the Champions League (top level cup competition). The next two spots? Europa League. Both competitions are taken fairly seriously, and at the end there is a match between the champions of the two (The European Super Cup).

Not saying that it is necessarily the right thing to do for FRC, but there is precedent.

The champions league is the biggest thing to win right under the Euro and the World cup itself.

Qualifications are a bit more strict than that for the champions league as well. 3 teams from spain, 3 from germany, 3 from england, 2 from italy, 2 from france, 2 from portugual, and 1 from various other countries.

I think the best route would be to have one championship be for regional winners, and the other for chairmans, EI, rookie, etc.

[mrnoble]

Originally Posted by Jared Russell

This is quite literally how the Europa League works in European soccer. Finish in one of the top 4 spots in your division? You go to the Champions League (top level cup competition). The next two spots? Europa League. Both competitions are taken fairly seriously, and at the end there is a match between the champions of the two (The European Super Cup).

Not saying that it is necessarily the right thing to do for FRC, but there is precedent.

European football teams are generally thrilled to keep playing, since the clubs make more money off of branded merchandise and ticket sales, and the players can increase their salaries and their open market value. High school students and volunteers might not do so well adding another week of time out of state and away from school.