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Originally Posted by inkling16
We also have to remember that many of the district teams that travel to regionals and qualify for Champs there are almost certainly going to qualify for Champs in their home region anyway, so this statement really desn't change anything for them. The only way it would come into play is if a team qualifies in a regional but does not qualify via the point system in their home region.
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Last year, four MAR teams eligible for MAR CMP did not go due to competing at outside regionals. One of these was due to having won a slot via Chairman's at an outside regional, and they did not (primarily due to not competing at MAR CMP) win a MAR point slot. This would have taken one slot away in MAR last year. The other two teams competed Week 6 (logistics prevented competing Week 7/they had Championship slots anyway) and the other was competing Week 7(and already had a Championship slot). Let's say the team competing Week 7 (365 at Chesapeake, HoF team) won that weekend, would this have taken a MAR slot away?
On one hand, I think this is a negative change. On the other, I completely understand FIRST's intentions (at least, what I'm assuming to be their intentions), of trying to mitigate the "more bids than slots" issue as much as possible, but on the other hand, I'm sure this would affect <10 teams, meaning the only real impact this would have is in regards to less waitlist teams being able to go to Championships, something which is already extremely limited.