Thread: Wild Card 2013
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Re: Wild Card 2013

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Originally Posted by Marina Dimitrov View Post
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.
If they were to always say 6 new teams per regional, it would total up to more then 400 teams that would qualify. I think the reason they added the wild card the way they did is that they took away the early registration for champs, and adding the wild card in the current way most likely evens out the teams that would have come from that.
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