[Alexa Stott]

In the other thread about a qualification-only championship event, I advocated for a points system similar to how the regions with district events do it. Teams could attend events and earn points throughout the season and the top 300whatever teams would qualify for CMP.

For MAR (and I'm assuming FiM is probably similar), points are awarded as follows:

16 points to the #1 Alliance Captain
15 points to the #2 Alliance Captain
and so on

16 points to the #1 overall pick (if they accept)
15 points to the #2 overall pick (if they accept)
and so on

Winning Alliance: 30 points to the alliance captain and the first pick, 24 to the second pick
Finalists: 20 points to alliance captain and first pick, 16 to the second pick
Semifinalists: 10 points to alliance captain and first pick, 8 to the second pick

Each team receives 2 points for each match they win and 1 point for each match they tie. Technical/design awards and the coopertition awards are worth 5 points and the rest of the awards are worth 2. The winners of the Chairman's Award are the only ones who automatically qualify. I'd advocate for keeping automatic qualifications for the previous year's winners, HoF teams, original teams, etc. The number of spots they take up is pretty negligible and many of them qualify anyway each year.

I think the points system does a pretty good job at determining which teams deserve to go to the championship in terms of robot ability. Obviously, a separate system for the actual Championship Event would have to be determined, but I posted the MAR one here just to give people an idea of how it would work.

Perhaps even we could keep the current qualification rules (regional winners, RCA, EI, RAS) the same and use the points to determine the "at-large" or "wildcard" spots?