The Divisions...

[Joe Johnson]

Originally Posted by Peter Matteson

You pretty much summed up the way I always explain it and feel about. My team's goal every year is to make "the show" as we also refer to Einstein, division doesn't matter that much even though we would like to have a trophy from each one, as I'm sure the other teams who have won 3 out of 4 would like to (25, 217).

Just to be clear, I am not saying that the current system is broken. I LOVE the current system. So to all those who say that this is fixing a problem that doesn't exist, you are correct but misguided.

I am proposing a thought experiment along the lines of "can it be better?"

I think perhaps it can. The idea came to me listening to Verbrugge talk about this or that team at the MSC having success in Curie or Newton in year X. It struck me that while Einstein means something, Curie, Newton, Archimedes or Galeleo are meaningless other than that they are CMP divisions and they are not Einstein.

I think it may be better if they actually developed an identity. Now the down side is that if they are identifiable, then they are not identical, which is bad news to the members of the Fairness Cult but perhaps there are enough positives to overcome this negative.

Let's keep the ideas and discussion going.

Joe J.