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[EricH]

Originally Posted by Caleb Sykes

Can you explain in greater detail what you mean by this?

Think about it this way:

Each regional sends 6 teams to the Championship.
Each district sends some number of teams X, where X/(championship capacity)=(district's teams)/(FRC teams as a whole).

If X > 6, the district sends more teams than a regional. Now, some areas have more than one regional. If X > 12... or X > 18...

If the number of teams in a given area remains the same, but more teams can go to the Championship, then there is a higher chance that any given team can go to the championship in any given year. And, you don't have to WIN events to go to the Championship: 3 finalist appearances (one at DCMP) ought to do the trick quite nicely, or 2 finalist and 1 elims, or 3 elims appearances and a few awards. Going under a regional system requires winning or being on the finalist alliance when somebody double-qualifies.