Split Champs assignment

[AdamHeard]

Southern champs for us!

[Drakxii]

Wow... it took them a year and special committee to come up with this? They haven't even decided on "non-home" champs selections or culminating event details.

Also I wish FIRST would stop focusing on the "affordable" of this when they are making TN and NC go to Houston instead of Detroit/St. Louis. Not to mention that Houston is one of the more expensive places to fly to in the US.

[Michael Corsetto]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

Didn't it literally just plummet to zero?

Correct.

We'll be saving our energy for 2021. See you then

-Mike

[Rick]

Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto

Correct.

We'll be saving our energy for 2021. See you then

-Mike

The problem I see with a potential #1champs in 2021 is will FIRST ever take back any of the 800 world championship spots? Could a venue hold an 800 team championship? To have a single championship I think 600 is the top end.

Going 4 years with 2 champs is going to leave a generation of FRC with the expectation of 800 teams going to 2 champs. The current generation plus the veteran mentors are not happy now - but what happens in 2021 when it doesn't combine into one championship? Will anyone expect the "old timers" care?

[Ty Tremblay]

Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto

Correct.

We'll be saving our energy for 2021. See you then

-Mike

Behold as the mighty 1678 retreats to its cave for hibernation.

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto

Correct.

We'll be saving our energy for 2021. See you then

-Mike

Or, hypothetically, you could save your energy (and money) and skip the official half-championship in favor of an IRI-on-steroids type de-facto World Championship.

Hypothetically.

[TheJoe]

Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto

Correct.

We'll be saving our energy for 2021. See you then

-Mike

Michael might be on to something here.

What if, Circa 2025, we have North-west, North-East, South-West, and South-East Championships, and the winners of each all converge on STL to play on the Dean Kamen Field for the mega championship?

[Citrus Dad]

Originally Posted by JohnFogarty

Well the statistical odds of 2056 winning their next world championship just went WAAAAYYY up.

It will be just another (Super) Regional to add to their new streak...

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by JohnFogarty

Well the statistical odds of 2056 winning their next world championship just went WAAAAYYY up.

Considering they're "Championship" ( I refuse to call it a championship. I just call it Superegional North) is full of FiM, MAR, NE District and Chesapeake District team plus teams from Ontario I think they're still in for a big fight.

[Akash Rastogi]

Well, $@#$@#$@#$@#, now I'm sad.

[jlmcmchl]

Originally Posted by bearbot

Darn looks likes will miss our friends on the west coast friends but we have 4 districts New England, MAR, Michigan and Cheaspeake

Don't forget Indiana, another incredibly strong district for it's size.

[EricLeifermann]

Im sure I'm missing some but it looks like only 7 HOF/original teams in the Houston champs while all the rest are in the St. Louis/Detroit.

I get that FIRST can't help where the HOF and original team are from but the HOF area at champs are going to look even more sparce than they have; but with less teams they should be able to give the HOF teams the amount of space they used to/deserve to have....

[SoccerTaco]

We are slated for Houston.

Knoxville to Detroit or St Louis, ~7.5 hours.
Knoxville to Houston, ~13.5 hours.

The Kentucky border isn't far from us - time to rent a P.O. Box for our home address??

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by EricLeifermann

Im sure I'm missing some but it looks like only 7 HOF/original teams in the Houston champs while all the rest are in the St. Louis/Detroit.

I get that FIRST can't help where the HOF and original team are from but the HOF area at champs are going to look even more sparce than they have; but with less teams they should be able to give the HOF teams the amount of space they used to/deserve to have....

On the other hand, three of the past four (and four of the past six)Chairman's Winners will be on the Houston side of the divide.

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by EricLeifermann

Im sure I'm missing some but it looks like only 7 HOF/original teams in the Houston champs while all the rest are in the St. Louis/Detroit.

I get that FIRST can't help where the HOF and original team are from but the HOF area at champs are going to look even more sparce than they have; but with less teams they should be able to give the HOF teams the amount of space they used to/deserve to have....

If we get our wish, it will be down to at most 6 teams unfortunately.