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Re: The Rest Of The Best

Well, taking an old idea I had about the Championship - imagine if every team was slotted to a Division right at the start of the season.

Team 1 Archimedes
Team 4 Newton
Team 5 Newton
Team 7 Galileo
Team 8 Curie
Team 9 Galileo
Team 11 Archimedes
Team 16 Curie
(repeat)

The teams are divided up randomly like that, so to ensure the same teams don't always end up together. And teams will be randomly set up at the start of each year.

90 teams from each Division will be invited to the Championship. In order to be invited, you must either a) acquire one of the many automatic qualifiers, b) apply and have the top ranking of all teams applying.

Firstly, all of the automatic qualifiers will be given their Slot at the beginning of the year: the original 32, last years winners and so on. So if Team A, B and C won last year, and Team A and B are in Curie and C is in Newton, there are now 88 Slots left in Curie and 89 left in Newton.

Then, all Automatic qualifiers will rank next, filling up the majority of the Divisions. A team with multiple qualifiers will be placed into the division first, and all other teams with only one will be placed next, in their total year ranking order based on all events they played. This way, if a division is top heavy and more than 90 teams earn qualifiers, those who earned more than one will be given a more automatic chance into the Division. Teams with better yearly records will be given their single bid bid whereas the lower teams who were simply selected second by the top seeds of the event will be left out (if that ever happens)

So lets say that Archimedes has 20 Slots left after filling all of their Automatic Qualifiers. This means that the top 20 robotics teams in that year's Archimedes Division apply for Champs will be accepted in. If a team like 2056 has won 4 bids in a year, that means that 3 additional spots will be open to fill additional "application bid" teams.
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