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Originally posted by jk2005
NO odd even stuf because than it isn't really fair to all the even rookie teams in the case of this year.
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Having been on both sides of the coin in this debate at one point or another, I'm going to stay out of it as much as I can. However, based on what I have quoted above, many of you can probably aready guess what it is I'm going to write here.
Basically, the reason the odd/even stuck around this year was for fairness - i.e. toward all those odd teams that threw up their arms last year when they found out that because they were not an even-numbered team, they had to work harder to compete in the championship. FIRST already knows about the discussions held here and elsewhere about teams' reactions to the whole odd/even qualification system(it was brought up at the team forum, if I remember correctly), and I would not be surprised if you saw a change in 2004. But for this year, I wouldn't count on it...