In terms of moving towards a total remodel of the FRC Event/Championship/District/Regional/SuperRegional structure, this is definitely a step in the right direction towards unifying FIRST to a new era of event structure, and I definitely expected this to happen, especially with the addition of two district systems this year.
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Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter
I'm not a fan of the auto-bids. I'd like for everything to be assigned points... partly because of the scalability that Jim Zondag emphasized in his Q&A on the Michigan Districts... and partly because then it puts all the awards and accomplishments on the same level. FIRST can compare Chairmans' apples-to-apples to Regional Wins. Also, it gets rid of some of the little loopholes... With the proposed New England points system, winning Chairmans' at a district event autobids you to the DCMP... but it doesn't add to your point total to help you qualify for CMP.
While I'm not a huge fan of the auto-bids, I would like for teams' that win Chairmans', Engineering Inspiration, or Rookie All Star to be automatically eligible to send their judging team to the District Championships... that way the best teams for each award are being judged at DCMP.
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Did the NEFIRST email say that EI and RAS get autobids to DCMP? I'm not trying to sound condescending, but in MAR and (I assume) FiM, the RAS and EI teams both get to send judging teams to MSC/MAR Champs(in fact at MAR Champs this year, one of the EI winners, 321, was there judging-only, as was the RAS winner, 4637)
I'm gonna disagree with you on this though, and say that if FIRST wants to consider Chairman's the most important award, they should continue to grant teams that win it the same opportunities as teams with incredible robots. For some teams, if they have a strict administration, it might be hard to convince administrators to allow the trip to DCMP if there's no robot going-unfortunately, I'm sure this is true.
However, in two years of MAR, all teams that have won Chairman's have otherwise been in a pointswise position to make it to MAR Champs. I believe the same is generally true for FiM(one of them can confirm or deny; my memory of viewing spreadsheets tells me there have been one or two), but remember: generally, teams that win Chairman's usually have pretty good robots.
Now, I had started researching an analysis to see how the teams that won Chairman's in NE regionals this year and last year would have qualified based off their robot performance using
these rankings, but then I realized that it contains the original NE point proposal. Has anyone applied the FiM/MAR ranking style to NE for last year?