Predictions: The Return of One Championship?

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Originally Posted by RoboChair

Just find a way to get everybody in Districts.

Everybody gets to do 2 events or more.
Those that do well in their 2 events get to have a local championship experience.

Can't speak for other events, but at least in the case of Michigan, there's a way to go before the "Local Championship" Experience is anywhere close to Worlds. The production quality is just not there yet. When District Championships start utilizing professional production companies again to put on a "real" show then we'll talk. If every District Championship had at least the kind of event production you see at an event like Festival de Robotique in Montreal, then we can looking at making them "replacements" for the the World Championship, currently they're basically just super-regional size events with district-quality production. Not to say the event's are bad, they just don't have the same impact.