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Originally Posted by Dancin103
I applaud this 
I wonder why teams like 341 still register in spite of this. They already won the Boston regional. |
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Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux
Seriously? You're questioning why a team wants to play in their region's championship event? This is a competition you know.
357 is looking forward to playing with all of the great teams from the MAR district events, especially some of the NJ teams we haven't seen yet. We will not be attending the Championship event, so this is it for us this year. Good luck to all the teams competing!
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Last time I checked, this event is called "Mid-Atlantic Robotics FRC Region Championship" not the "Mid-Atlantic Region Qualifying Event". This is about the best MAR teams competing for the first ever MAR championship. It is an honor to qualify and compete in this special event. Sure, the top performers will earn CMP qualification spots awarded, but that is far from the main purpose of the event.
Those that are looking at MAR champs as simply a qualifier of CMP are underestimating what is in front of them. Every team at MAR champ has elimination experience, making the 12 qualifying matches more like a 3 day elimination tournament. Outside of FiM, teams have never seen anything like this (except for the few teams in the region that have make the pilgrimage to IRI). My most mind blowing observation when I started watching the Michigan State Championship, is that quality of play in the qualifications is clearly better than division qualifications (many "reasonably astute observers" would agree). Sure the division will produce a better elim field of 24, but during the quals those 24 are spread out among the a huge division (now more than 100 teams).
MAR is about half the size of FiM, but I still expect consistent quality from the teams and highly competitive qualification matches. The teams are familiar with each other, so strategies and counter-strategies will have more opportunity to develop. I also expect a stronger 24 team elim field than any of the regionals, many of which had more than 54 teams.
I wish 103, 555 1143 & all the other qualified teams could attend, but understand that they cannot. As great as this event will be, we will always know it would have been even better with them. I hope the scheduler gives my teams (365 & 4342) matches with/against all the teams we haven't had a match with this year (somehow at 37 team Chestnut Hill, 365 & 341 were never in the same match). This should be a fun new experience for all teams.
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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
Gogo broken quote chain!
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The messed up quote names are pretty funny. I made it a point to multi quote so I could see what names show up, but they were correct.