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Originally Posted by PayneTrain
For the 2014 season, no more than 23 teams will pre-qualify (barring... complications, or a CCA or EI winner being an original team or CMP winner), and there are currently 22 spots left until FRC reaches its target of 408 this year. Assuming those are all going to be waitlist teams, why not go ahead and say "any team qualified for CMP and wins an event gives up a spot".
Waitlist priority should also be given to finalist captains and first picks. It seems inconsequential on a large level, but a good thing to give to teams.
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Pre-qualification isn't the only method though--teams also qualify at 2 different times in the same event. Expanding the system, even into just pre-qualification wildcards, leaves no room for growth or a greater percent acceptance. Saying that anyone who's qualified and wins generates a wildcard would have put us over this year (assuming someone accepted).
You're correct that it's a fair and good thing to do, but I don't know how it's sustainable.
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Originally Posted by Thunder910
I also think there needs to be some way to give early season event-attendees wild card spots. A great example of this is 2791, Shaker Robotics. Shaker attended BAE Week one and did decently.
They then attended a Week 2 competition, WPI, and with their improvements managed to get the number one seed as well as become finalists. A number of factor prevented them (and us) from winning that regional, but their robot was top-notch. I think if they had the chance, they'd have more improvements at champs and be a force to be reckoned with.
But they do not, as they attended two early season regionals.
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This is something a point system could help with. In the MAR point system, Shaker would have finished their 2 events with 89 points. The lowest points-qualifying team MAR sent this year got 77 in their first 2 districts. If wildcards had been reserved from Week 1 and fed into a list of competitors later in the season, 2791 probably would have been near the top of that list. But because of the regional they happened to attend, they didn't get that chance.
I think this whole 'line of succession' thing is begging for some FiM style data
