Sorry for the double-post, but to clear some things up:
1. According to
this FRC Blog post,, "
These allocated slots are guaranteed to the Districts. These slots will be made up of qualifying award winners from the District Championship (for example, the Chairman’s Award winners), along with any qualifying award winners among district teams who traveled to Regionals, plus the teams on the final District ranking list, as deep in the ranking list as the district needs to go to fill their allocation." So, no matter what, it sounds like MAR will send 21 teams. 3 Hall of Fame Teams + 18 unique other teams.
2. The blog post also says "
Pre-qualified teams from a District do not count against their slot allocation. Districts are able to send to the FIRST Championship the number of unique teams allocated to them using the proportional representation model, plus their unique pre-qualified teams." Thus, since 341, a pre-qualified HoF team won MAR Champs, MAR was able to send another unique team via points.
3. It also says "
As noted in the summary document, District teams earning FIRST Championship slots at Regionals do count against the District allocation. Even though a District team may earn their FIRST Championship slot at a Regional, they are still from the District and can be considered part of the District contingent to the Championship." Since 11 also won MAR Champs, I guess they took a Winner slot instread of taking a point slot. This means that the total point slot allocations, after 225, 2016, and 2067 took three away from the original 10, but 341 gave back one by winning Lehigh, is 8.
4. 1089, 222, 2180, 193, 56, 1640, and 484 were the next top 7th ranked teams in MAR. It was announced after MAR Champs that they would all get all get an invitation to St. Louis. Although many people expected there to only by 6 slots, the 7th slot was because MORT blackholed a winner spot instead of a points slot.
3. However, unrealized by most, since 341 also won MAR Champs, there were actually 8 point slots, as I mentioned in #2. 869 was the 8th next highest ranked team, so although it wasn't said at MAR Champs, they got the St. Louis slot that was revived by 341 winning, which they accepted.
4. 56 unfortunately declined their point slot to St. Louis, so it was passed onto the next top ranked team (ranked 9th), Team 75, who accepted it.
5. 357 seems to have registered for St. Louis via an official waitlist slot. Interestingly, I can't find any other teams that have done the same, though. It just so seems to have happened that they were the next top ranked team in MAR after 75.
But, I could be wrong.
