[EricH]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

If by preparing you mean "making teams realize the added stress on merit qualification and not fastest-finger qualification will stick around" and by "go away" will evolve into the at large pools we see in MAR and FiM, then we're on the same page.

That's what I was getting at. There will be more wild cards in future--but they will be the district qualification pools when the transition is complete.