# of Divisions at Championships

[Ernst]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

If it's really 8 divisions of 50 per event, you'd be better off saving your money on the registration fee and going to some second rate regional.

Especially if you're in a District. Going from one of the larger DCMPs to a 50 team division at a half champs would be a step down in level of play. Based on OPR, that already happened a few times, but pulling 50 out of 800 teams would virtually guarantee that every half champs division is weaker than every DCMP.

Obviously FIRST's goal with half champs isn't to find the best robot, it's to get a lot more teams involved. But if we're stuck with this, I'd at least like 4 divisions at each to give roughly the same level of play as we've had for the last 2 years in St Louis.