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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
The way the wild card rules are written means that those wild card spots end up going unused.
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).
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Originally Posted by Nuttyman54
The wildcard slot goes unused in both cases. The only case in which a wildcard gets passed down is if the team receiving the wildcard already qualified at a PREVIOUS event. Additional qualifications at the same event do not count.
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I see, that explains it. My extended question, though, is whether FIRST should do something so that X number of
new teams (6, I believe? RCA, EI, Rookie All-Star, and 3 Winners normally) qualify for Championships from each regional. For example, reworking the Wild Card rules so that doubling qualifying by winning RCA/EI/All-Star and the regional itself at the same event doesn't "take away" a Championship slot from someone else at that event.
I'm not sure I stand one way or another on this issue, I'm just interested in getting more thoughts.