Just as a FYI for those curious,
The MAR rankings have been posted on the
MAR website.
There is also a
blog post outlining the number or District Championship slots, 55, and the number of MAR slots at St. Louis, 18.
The winning alliance members at the MAR CMP are guaranteed slots to the FIRST CMP, like last year. PNW and NE do not guarantee the winning alliance members FIRST CMP slots. Don't know about FiM for this year. Last year the FiM champs were awarded slots automatically.
For 2014 MAR has 5 Rookie teams, 9 2nd year teams, and 9 3rd year teams.
Team Distribution for the MAR events:
Code:
HH MO SCH CLI LS BR
40 38 15 14 3 0 1st event
0 0 19 19 35 37 2nd event
0 0 0 0 2 8 3rd event
In 2013 the last team to be invited to the MAR CMP, after declines, was ranked 69th with 39 ranking points and after the MAR CMP the last team invited to the FIRST CMP by ranking was ranked 12th with 182 ranking points (the 1st ranked team had 337 points).