New club regionals/nationals format idea

Current problems to fix:

-regions can farm nationals bids with local tournaments. Triple crown tour has mitigated this but it ain’t foolproof (a la shrimp).

-4 teams to nationals for a single region is pretty egregious. Some regions only have 1 and it leads to boring regionals (machine rolling at Great Lakes, etc)

-Not enough teams at nationals, the field is cliquey and almost repetitive every year. More dues paying members deserve the nationals experience, not just the “elites”

-too much focus on early season game results, top select teams trying to earn a bid may not focus on the process and build roster depth, thereby not peaking at regionals.

-not enough fans onsite at nationals, mostly just players

-No incentive to win a region, only just to qualify. Rankings don’t affect nationals seedings.

Solution: get rid of rankings for nationals bids, while keeping the sectionals bid system intact. 24 teams at nationals per division, that’s 3 teams for every region regardless of rankings. Using rankings for seeding, 8 team power pools for the region winners, who all get into a 16 team bracket. The other 16 non region winners compete in a one day pool play/crossover that determine the next 8 in the bracket. Keep tct requirements/sanctions for qualifying teams and 4th place finishers from each region to prevent teams from ignoring the regular season.

-Removes drama over bid allocations, provides players with more exciting regionals, incentivizes winning a region, brings more teams and therefore fans to nationals. Trying to think what problems this would cause compared to the current system