# of Divisions at Championships

[Cothron Theiss]

What if FIRST did something absolutely crazy and had two Qualification Rounds? The first Quals round has 8 divisions of 50 in which everyone plays a set number of matches. The top 25 ranked teams from each division are then put into their presorted 2nd Quals division, where the 4 new divisions of 50 play on the 8 fields (each division gets two fields). Then, the Elimination rounds proceed as usual. This has the drawbacks of being hopelessly complex from a logistics standpoint, requiring a huge amount of volunteers, and knocking out the lower performing teams even sooner. Also, since both of the Quals rounds have less matches each, this lowers the quality of the ranking itself, meaning that better teams might get koncked out far too early.
I doubt this could ever be implemented, but it may take a really interesting solution to solve the issue of a weakened CMP.