Preparing for the Town Hall Meeting on the New Championships Format

[Racer26]

I still think the single biggest problem with the championshplit is that the lions share of the inspiration of the championship comes from being able to schmooze with the best teams in the world.

By geographically dividing them, the best don't end up in one place and that necessarily reduces the total impact of the event. Are DCMP's inspiring? Sure, but not as inspiring as WCMP. The championshplit takes WCMP and turns it into 2x something a bit bigger than MICMP.

Not only this, but the most inspiring super-elite teams (like 1114, 254, 148, 118, and many many more) build their FRC robots around the goal of winning the championship, and by removing the cohesive goal they strive toward, their impact may be reduced.

Its easy to say that HQ is making these decisions to get maximum impact for maximum number of teams (and so getting more teams to a CMP-class event is good), but not if it comes at the cost of watering down the impact of the top teams, because IMO, that's where most of the inspiration comes from.

I remember a couple of years ago in 2013 listening to 1114 explaining their reasoning behind Simbot BA Baracus not having a floor pickup. They had built their robot to be the best cycler and 30pt climber, because they knew that 7 disc autos would be prevalent among the top teams, and they wanted to be first pick of the #1 captain. Two 7 disc autos wouldn't help an alliance, but a really fast 30pt climber would. They werent concerned with how to win regionals, but rather, how to win CMP. It made perfect sense. Their plan worked, too. They built a robot to be first pick, and it was.