Split Champs assignment

[AndrewPospeshil]

Originally Posted by Hot_Copper_Frog

As much as I love my fellow Michiganders...the Detroit championship is going to feel a whole lot like MSC.

I'm going to lobby hard for the frogs to travel to Hawaii for some fresh faces starting in 2018.

>tfw class of 2017

Originally Posted by peirvine

They could potentially run it like they do FTC - where they have 4 "super regionals" which then feed into the World Championship again. I think they had something like that drafted up in 2011 but I could be mistaken.

Originally Posted by RoboChair

I would like to see FIRST push for everyone having districts instead of regionals(sparse international teams I have no current solution for). Everyone gets at least 2 events, those that do well get a Championship experience at the District level champs, and the best of the best at District Champs goes to the World Champs. The district model gives FIRST absolute control over team attendance numbers for Champs, bring X number of teams.

I think this is the end goal - and it it's not, I think it should be. If more and more regions move to Districts (lets say, 85% of FRC teams), then FRC could operate much like the FTC Super Regional model, except DCMPs are the the Super Regionals. This way, all teams will get 1-3 small events (Districts/Qualifiers), one big event (DCMP/Super Regional*), and one (hopefully singular) Champs. This way, mid-tier teams get an opportunity to advance to additional levels of competition, while perennial powerhouses get the satisfaction of an "undiluted" CMP.

*yeah, I know FTC has State Champs in most/all places. imo four levels of competition is too much