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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/2013 Championship Registration/2013 FRC Season Dates and Deadline

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Originally Posted by Alpha Beta View Post
PPS. Could 111 have declined the wild card berth (since they are a hall of fame team) and would it have passed on to Team Hammond (71) keeping their championship streak alive?
No. Under the Wild Card rules...

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Wild Card slots are passed to the next team in order only if the team occupying that Wild Card slot has, itself, already qualified for Championship at an earlier Regional in 2013.
(emphasis mine)

So, 111 could have declined the wild card berth, but at that point it would have become unused/unusable.
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