FIRST Wish List

[Lil' Lavery]

I think the eliminations system is probably as good as it can get. If you double the number of alliances it will do several things.
A)the alliance selection will take longer
B)it will delude the quality of each alliance and therefore the quality of the matches
C)it will make the elimination rounds take longer, therefore less qualifying rounds
D)It'll make the higher seeded alliances even more dominant, as they are the only ones with a real hope of getting two top notch teams (even if they cant pick out of the top 8 or 16)

And we need to keep the ability for a top 8 seed to pick other top 8 seeds. Otherwise your gonna see teams start to "throw matches" to get out of the top 8 so they can be picked by the #1 or #2 teams. And even if you keep the picking amognst the top 8, at championships its not that big of a deal. In Archimedes only 1 team of the top 8 was selected by a higher seed (#8 217 was picked by 245). #9 173 was also picked, but they declined and became the #8 alliance captain.

What I would change is to make the use of the camera during auto even more important. This year it was a great way to score, but it was so difficult not many teams attempted it, and even fewer succeeded. If they had made it worth even MORE points (such as permantly owning the goal it was capped on, or being able to add a free tetra anywhere you wanted at the end of the match) more teams would have attempted it, and more teams would have put more effort into it.