Split Champs assignment

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Theseusgoats

Pardon my canadian geography, but are 1114, 2056, and 1241 going to the St.Louis/ Detroit champs?

Yes. All three of those teams are from Ontario, which is in the Eastern half of Canada.

[Theseusgoats]

Do you know about 610?

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Theseusgoats

Do you know about 610?

http://www.thebluealliance.com/
http://www.mapsofworld.com/north-america/

Search for whatever team you want, check it against the map.

[mwmac]

"However, to maintain balance between the two events, not every team who asks may be able to move to their “non-home” Championship. Specifically, FIRST may limit the quantity of teams allowed to change from one event to the other for various reasons."

I am willing to bet that the terms "balance" and "various reasons" will effectively bar e.g. 1114, 2056, 33, 67 from opting to go south in the same year (or 254, 1678, 118, 148) regardless of when each team initiates the opt out mechanism. Subjective granting of opt out requests will rule....

Was hoping for much better.

[Tim Sharp]

Originally Posted by Theseusgoats

Do you know about 610?

They are also from Toronto/Eastern Canada

[Rick]

Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto

Correct.

We'll be saving our energy for 2021. See you then

-Mike

The problem I see with a potential #1champs in 2021 is will FIRST ever take back any of the 800 world championship spots? Could a venue hold an 800 team championship? To have a single championship I think 600 is the top end.

Going 4 years with 2 champs is going to leave a generation of FRC with the expectation of 800 teams going to 2 champs. The current generation plus the veteran mentors are not happy now - but what happens in 2021 when it doesn't combine into one championship? Will anyone expect the "old timers" care?

[Ty Tremblay]

Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto

Correct.

We'll be saving our energy for 2021. See you then

-Mike

Behold as the mighty 1678 retreats to its cave for hibernation.

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by EricLeifermann

Im sure I'm missing some but it looks like only 7 HOF/original teams in the Houston champs while all the rest are in the St. Louis/Detroit.

I get that FIRST can't help where the HOF and original team are from but the HOF area at champs are going to look even more sparce than they have; but with less teams they should be able to give the HOF teams the amount of space they used to/deserve to have....

If we get our wish, it will be down to at most 6 teams unfortunately.

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto

Correct.

We'll be saving our energy for 2021. See you then

-Mike

Or, hypothetically, you could save your energy (and money) and skip the official half-championship in favor of an IRI-on-steroids type de-facto World Championship.

Hypothetically.

[sdangelo]

I find it interesting that each ChampionSplit will have 400 FRC teams (as opposed to this year's 600) but the full current amount of other program teams (60 FllJr, 108 FLL, and 128 FTC). FIRST wasn't kidding or exaggerating this time when they said they were going to expand the other programs too.

[Zyrano]

I would have thought there would have been a time element to this, ie, if you won a week 6 regional or a district championship on week 7, how do you logically get a robot and team to Houston in like 4 days?

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Jared Russell

Or, hypothetically, you could save your energy (and money) and skip the official half-championship in favor of an IRI-on-steroids type de-facto World Championship.

Hypothetically.

Wow, I'd love to learn more about that!

[MARS_James]

Originally Posted by Hallry

So when's the next time you'll see your alliance partners from last week ever again?

3620: 2021 at the earliest
3627: 2017
3360: 2021 at the earliest

Unless we get into IRI who I think have a tougher selection process starting next year

Also how will district slots be allocated, by 400 or 800?

[TheJoe]

Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto

Correct.

We'll be saving our energy for 2021. See you then

-Mike

Michael might be on to something here.

What if, Circa 2025, we have North-west, North-East, South-West, and South-East Championships, and the winners of each all converge on STL to play on the Dean Kamen Field for the mega championship?

[pmangels17]

Well, it was really nice when I went to CMP in 2012 to seem 16, 79, 100, 115, 118, 148, 179, 180, 192, 233, 254, 330, 359, 842, 971, 973, 987, 1323, 1538, 1540, 1671, 1678, 1912, 1983, 3476, and many others. Maybe in a few years I might get to share an event with y'all again.