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Originally Posted by DevenStonow
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Originally Posted by Racer26
Additionally, the same should hold true for District model teams. If a team is already qualified by some other means (say, winning an out-of-district regional), then they should not eat up a district slot that could go to another team from the district.
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And if I'm not mistaken, I believe in MAR (so it should follow through with FiM history) the last statement does hold true; the only example of this I could find/think of excluding team 341(who have a HoF spot, so it's skipped anyway) was 2590 in 2012, who, along with having enough qualifying points, as well as previously winning the Montreal Regional, were skipped over in giving out point spots according to this document |
Yes, this is true in MAR, and I'm pretty sure (not 100%) in FiM too. At least for MAR, some of their St. Louis slots are given to the top ranked teams (via ranking points accumulated over the whole season, see the Mid-Atlantic Robotics website for more details) in the region. In 2012, this sent 5 teams to Champs, and I believe it was increased to 6 in 2013 (along with there being another spot for EI too - lucky us
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In 2012, 2590 was skipped over in the MAR ranking slot distribution since they won Montreal, 365 was skipped over due to HoF, and I'm pretty sure 222 was skipped over since they were preregistered via waitlist for St. Louis. 25 was also skipped over since they won MAR Champs. However, 341, already prequalified for Champs due to HoF, also won the MAR Championships, and were first in points. While they were skipped over in the distribution of the MAR slots given to the top ranked teams, I believe this wasted away a slot given to a MAR Champs winner.
In 2013, 11 was skipped over in MAR ranking slots since they already qualified by winning Palmetto, 1676 was skipped over since they won EI at MAR Champs, and 103 was skipped over due to HoF. 2590, 2729, and 1640 were skipped over since they won MAR Champs.