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Originally Posted by Oblarg
Let's look at the quote itself, shall we?
Now, please tell me how you could possibly read this in a way other than "we need to make sure that non-elite teams don't get in, because being paired with a non-elite team is harmful to the ranking of an elite team." He did not say "we need to restrict the number of teams that get in," he said "we have to make hard choices about who gets in." The sense of that quote is very clearly discriminatory as to team quality, not quantity.
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"as invitations to Championships get harder to come by, we need to start making hard choices about who gets in."
This implies quantity of robots as well as quality. Quality and quantity can sometimes go hand in hand when teams are taken off the waitlist.
Sure, many teams who attend from the waitlist have terrific bots, but many times there are also robots that, as Jared said, are not Championship caliber. A way to alleviate this is a qualification system based on points like FiM and MAR. The fact of the matter is that teams off the waitlist make for larger divisions = fewer matches for those who qualified for Champs.
Until that happens, I fully agree with Jared's points. Why should we come to the point where a random team is taken off the waitlist, while a team who competed early in the season and was, let's say, a regional finalist but did not get a wildcard slot, cannot attend? I would much rather see teams who didn't get Wildcards be able to attend champs instead of random teams who had good luck and fast fingers during registration.
Good example of a team that should have deserved to attend: 2791. No wildcard, no nothing.