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Originally Posted by EricH
The multi-slot winners could nominate another team of their choice to get into a slot. They could award to the finalist captain, a really good team that didn't get in, anything.
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Putting on my cynic hat for a moment, I can just see this idea blowing up in resentment, accusations/insinuations of favoritism, ticket-buying -bartering or -collusion scandals, etc, etc. The very last thing we need is teams deciding which other teams get a golden ticket, and which don't.
I think that a better way to go about it would be for each regional (or other qualifying even) to have a certain number of tickets to CMP, and that these tickets are all given to different teams -- so if a Regional Champion is also a RCA winner, then the extra ticket(s) flow down a pre-determined, known, objective hierarchy of teams. (Depending on what you're trying to accomplish, it could go to the Finalist captains, then the finalist first pick, then the finalist second pick... Or it could go to the top-seeded non-qualified team. Or to the winner of a particular award... Depending on the number of tickets you'd need a list of five or six (or as many as ten in later regionals) spots to take duplicate tickets).
As an off-the-cuff idea I'm sure there are some devils cavorting in the fiery details, but even so I'd be much more comfortable with a 'spread-the-wealth' system that doesn't give the prerogative to the team that won extra golden tickets.