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Originally Posted by Marina Dimitrov
I'm interested in how 2341 also winning EI (congratulations!) in addition to being on our finalist alliance affects the Wild Card protocol. Since the judges knew by this time they had qualified through EI, and that they would get a Wild Card (this would have been clear by the time finals started), should another team have gotten the Wild Card? And if so, who? This seems like what happened with 116 and possibly a few others. What do you all think?
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The way the wild card rules are written means that those wild card spots end up going unused.
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Wild Card slots are filled in the order of:
1. Finalist Alliance Captain
2. Finalist First Pick
3. Finalist Second Pick
4. Finalist Backup Team
Wild Card slots are passed to the next team in the order specified above only if the team occupying that Wild Card slot has already qualified for Championship at an earlier 2013 Regional. The number of potential Wild Card slots created at each Regional is equal to the number of teams on the Winning Alliance who had already qualified for Championship at an earlier Regional in 2013.
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The wild card spot is only passed down to another team if the team in line to receive it has qualified at an EARLIER event. So 116's spot, unfortunately, does not get passed to 3123 (the back-up bot on the finalist alliance).