Question of the Week!!! (7/11/04)

[JoeXIII'007]

The FIRST championship is the equivalent of the Superbowl, and shall NEVER be outgrown. However, I see tournament structure changes within the next few years. Here's what the change could look like:

You would have your regionals like you do now. Then, winners of those regionals would compete in an even bigger event like a state championship or geographical region championship. (midwest [I know, we already have a midwest regiona], northeast, southeast, west, etc.) Finally, the winners of those would compete in the Nationals. It'd be a 3-level tournament structure like that.

[Lil' Lavery]

Individual nationals are pretty far off as I see it. I think additional regionals will be added in canada first, like having a west canada regional, and an east canada regional first. Then, a brazilian regional, a european regional(once we get more teams there), and(in a few years) a second isreali regional(there are 12 rookie teams and a regional that are getting founded over there). I dont think we will need "nationals" for a long while, especially if we implement a divisional(or a lower than regional) step for competitions.

[Joshua May]

Like everyone who has posted before, I don't think FIRST will outgrow the Championships, it will simply get harder to qualify.

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Individual nationals are pretty far off as I see it. I think additional regionals will be added in canada first, like having a west canada regional, and an east canada regional first. Then, a brazilian regional, a european regional(once we get more teams there), and(in a few years) a second isreali regional(there are 12 rookie teams and a regional that are getting founded over there). I dont think we will need "nationals" for a long while, especially if we implement a divisional(or a lower than regional) step for competitions.

Will that Israeli regional be up for next year, I haven't heard of that yet!