Split Champs in '17 and '18

[JesseK]

Originally Posted by logank013

With 800 teams at two champs locations, I assume it will be 400 at each. In total, will they have 8 divisions with 100 each? or 16 with 50 each? or 12 with 67ish each? or another split up? Does anyone know for sure? thanks.

I've heard rumors of expanding FTC at World Champs as well but I'm willing to bet that FIRST is on top of the logistics needed to support the sheer quantity of people at the events. I don't think they'll ever get to 800 FRC teams at a single event.

Remember, it was 600 (ish) FRC teams at champs last year. Going from 400 to 600 teams for FRC in 2015 used about 750 more hotel rooms, or 3-5 additional hotels' worth of rooms (convservatively @ 15 people traveling per team, 4 people to a room). That also means about 3500 more people (including volunteers for the new divisions) had to travel to the city during very specific dates and times.

The timing conflict with VEX is a pretty unfortunate scenario. I doubt it was a direct intention - the IFI sponsorship is significant and reaches every team in FRC. I really do wonder about the thinking behind the dates though.