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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
Auto qualify Chairman's Winners. Everyone else gets in via district-like points system.
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Agreed.
If a universal point system isn't on the table, another way to do it is by qualifying a set number of teams at each event, no matter what. There's a pecking order of which achievements qualify you for the next level, and if a team near the top of that list is already qualified, the bid goes to the next team on the list.
One possible list:
1. Chairman's Award
2. Winner - Captain
3. Winner - 1st pick
4. Engineering Inspiration
5. Winner - 2nd pick
6. Winner - replacement bot
7. Finalist Alliance Captain
8. Finalist 1st pick
9. Rookie All-Star
10. Finalist 2nd pick
11. Motorola Quality
12. GM Industrial Design
13. Innovation in Controls
14. Highest seeded semifinalist captain
15. etc...
Let's say this system was in effect at a regional where the winning alliance included a HoF team and the Engineering Inspiration winner. You'd end up qualifying the RCA winner, the winning alliance, the finalist captain, the finalist first pick, and the RAS. It's 7 teams in all since the HoF team was already qualified.
This system has the advantage of being easily scalable (just reduce the number of qualifying teams to 5 and you've just reduced crowding at Champs) and it would be very easy to implement.