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Originally Posted by SuperNerd256
Wow that's a lot of teams! Just putting my $00.02 in, I think it can be unfair for any one team to be allowed win more than one regional. They're already going to the championships, so why not give another alliance the chance to make it to St. Luis? Just my opinion here.
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I think that this comes up every single year... Like Eric said, they do not steal a spot from another team... In my opinion, these teams help other teams. In their second (or even third) regional win, they take teams in their alliance to a regional win and thus to championships.
Last year at Palmetto, the winning alliance (343, 1261, and 1398) were all already qualified for championships. Of the finalist alliance (1772, 2751, 1102) I do not think that any of them were pre-registered for championships. But, after the regional, all three (I believe) were invited because of their performance at the regional.
All in all, they are already going to the regional... they have paid, and have earned the right to do their best at any competition that they go to. With multiple regional wins, the wait-listed teams get moved up (that may not have gone otherwise) and get to go.