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Originally Posted by dag0620
Qualifiers to me sound as if that round is teams trying to prove there good enough to be in competition, and the term seems to just give the round a negative feel IMO.
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That's exactly the point--you attend the qualifier to prove you're good enough (for whatever value of "good enough" applies) to attend the next-level event (what would've been known in recent years as the Michigan State Championship). It's the same line of thinking that, nine years after its establishment*, has kept us from using different names for autonomous mode and teleoperated mode--they are the proper names for the mode of robot operation.
TLDR: I'm with Travis.
*Okay, so 2008 gave us Hybrid Mode instead--but that case also applies: the robots were not strictly autonomous, but they weren't capable of full teleoperated control in most cases.