Proposal for the 2 Championship format

[EricH]

Originally Posted by dodar

No, for 2016, Team B would go to the Challenger Championships. And based on their end of the year points total, they would either go up or stay. Team A would, most likely, drop down to Challenger for next year after not making it to Premier Champs.

So, at the beginning of each year, each team is in either Challenger or Premier. And over the course of the year, they build up points. Then after all FIRST events are held, the top 50% in points from Challenger switch with the bottom 50% in points of Premier. Then you roll into next season and repeat the process.

OK...

Gary, can I trouble you to repeat yourself?

Seeing as you're going to all the trouble to track the event points separately, why not just make it two separate leagues? It'd be one heck of a lot easier. And BTW, that already got shot down about a decade ago. So now you have to justify blocking teams from the top event even if they would merit attendance, even by beating multiple teams from the top event if that happens.

Honestly, if this split happens in the way you folks envision, YOU. PERSONALLY. get to tell all the students on any team who would be in the top event by wins etc. why they must go to the bottom event, despite apparently qualifying for the top event. That goes for each and every one of you who is a proponent of this idea. And trust me, if I were you guys... I'd be bringing some backup, just in case. My team had some students that really wanted to do a third event (including trying to get to CMP via waitlist this year). We had to tell them no--and it wasn't easy to decide that, despite the numbers lining up in favor of not going.


Folks, this is the Championship HQ is splitting, not the entirety of FRC. But if this proposal goes through, you just split all of FRC.