Preparing for the Town Hall Meeting on the New Championships Format

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Originally Posted by efoote868

I know we keep focusing on 800 teams, but it stands to reason that FIRST has the goal of getting >25% of teams to a championship event. While one location might be good for 800 teams, what happens when FRC grows beyond 3200 to 4000 or more teams?

While any solution focusing on 2017 and 2018 would assume 2 locations at some 800 team split, I'd look at it from FIRST's perspective. If the solution isn't scalable to years in the future, it probably is a non-starter with FIRST.



Thinking outside of the box, I think it would be neat to wrap up the previous season at the next year's kickoff. Having both winners play then solves the problem of no clearly defined champion, low visibility and perhaps "unofficial-ness" at any event other than a championship, fast turnaround travel times for the winning alliance at the early event, and possibly mentor burn-out / limited vacation times, etc.

This introduces more problems for the teams that win, including what to do with their robots in the off season and seniors graduating, but I think that could be worked around.

Wow....There is a different solution that could work. Graduating seniors could go out as Co-World Champs...And, The incoming, continuing team members could start off with a bang also.

That would certainly be interesting, Have the Championship Matches followed by a release of the new game and unveiling of the New Field Setup. Giving kickoff a new meaning, and new relative importance.