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Originally Posted by RichMSN
Yeah, really. Why should kids from a small school have any reasonable chance to win? How dare they?
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You could go all the way to the Oregon model where everyone gets championship! Can't have any little Johnny's upset because they had to compete with a school that had 3 more students!
We have 6 classes in Oregon....across a total of 290 schools, distributed roughly equally across the 6 classes except that 1A has about twice as many as the others (which have around 40 each).
IMO, Oregon doesn't have enough people/schools to justify 6 classes. (Population about 3.8 million). About 5-6 years ago, they changed from 4 classes to 6 classes to give more kids chances to win...more balanced competitively. I wouldn't be surprised if Oregon schools have the smallest number of opponents in their classification of any state in the US.