QotW 6-01-03: The Championship

[George1902]

Qualification hasn't made the Championship more competetive.

However, when FIRST decided to limit the number of teams going to the Championship, they made thier reason clear: there wasn't enough room for all the teams that wanted to go.

Based on this, we can see that the purpose of the qualification system for the Championships wasn't to improve the quality of the game, but to make the event smaller. They did accomplish this goal.

If you would like to make the Championship more competetive, you need to remove the even / odd system and make it purely qualification. Only teams who qualify in year XX can go to year XX's Championship Event (with the obvious exception of previous champions and Chairman's Award winners). The qualification system would need to be revised.

Possible qualifying requirements:

1). Any team who played on an alliance that went to the Semifinals at any event. (This way you can't qualify just by being picked. You have to earn it with success in the elimination matches.)

2). Any team who finishes in the top XX% during the qualification rounds. (This number can be tweaked according to how many teams have registered in FIRST, how many regionals there are, and how much room there is at the Championship event.)

3.) Any team who wins a Regional Award. (This helps to emphasize the parts of FIRST that aren't about competition.)

4.) Any previous champions or Chairman's Award winners.

These criteria would improve the competition at the Championship event, but it won't happen unless this becomes FIRST's goal.