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It should be possible to automate this task. This is a great data manipulation task for a computer.

The only question would be:
-What happens if they run out of the sidecar half way through the second round? How do you rank which teams get them? Do you claim that item out of stock for everyone in that round, and save the extra for next year, or do the current auction system for the excess?

If you implemented a similar system for regionals, you could set rules to prioritize teams based on geography when there are conflicts. Then, the teams that need to go there for travel reasons get in first. You could also prioritize further away teams in the later rounds, to promote more geographical diversity at regionals.




Seems like it would work, as long as they do proper numerical comparisons on numbers.