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Originally Posted by Natchez
FIRST Community, we have a problem! Some very, very great and inspirational robots will not be attending Championships in 2012 and these robots should be at Championships. Right?
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I completely agree. In past years, the waitlist was a perfectly acceptable way for great teams to attend championship . However, FRC has reached a growth stage where the waitlist should be controlled by performance, not by money.
So yes, FRC has a waitlist-qualification problem.
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Originally Posted by Natchez
The top 3 seeded teams from each regional qualify for Championships. |
This is the simplest solution for teams to understand.
Since I am most familiar with the Lone Star Regional, I will do a simple exercise to see if the
top 3 seeds qualify method is a valid metric to evaluate performance.
I encourage everyone to do this exercise for their regionals.
(c) - went to championship
(nc) - did not attend championship
Lone Star Regional:
2011:
118 (c) , 2936 (nc) , 2587 (nc) - all three teams should have attended, but only 1 did
2010:
148 (c) , 118 (c) , 624 (c) - all three should and did attend
2009:
418 (c) , 3028 (nc) , 441 (nc) - 441 should have attended champs, 3028 had a lucky schedule !
2008:
118 (c) , 501 (c) , 1477 (c) - all three teams should and did attend
2007:
846 (nc) , 118 (c) , 476 (c) - 846 should have attended champs
2006:
1902 (c) , 231 (c) , 704 (nc) - 704 should have attended champs
Conclusion: the
top 3 seeds qualify method at the LSR back to 2006 was a valid indicator, only one team in 2009 was an anomaly. Many teams did not go to championships from Lone Star, when they probably should have gone !
Disclaimer: the commentary on who should have attended championship is based on my own opinion and does not represent the feelings of chief delphi ! 