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Originally Posted by Bruceb
anybody know for sure how many wait list slots there were?
We were finalists in two regionals and won the quality award and
the industrial design award this season.
Thought we had a pretty good shot at the wait list.
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Based on
these calculations, it looks like there were 6 waitlist slots. A small number was expected, and
a few weeks ago, Frank even said there might be none. As far as I know, the waitlist is generally first-come, first-serve, meaning that how you perform throughout the season has no effect on whether or not you'll get in off the waitlist (unless you qualify by performance, of course). It all comes down to who has the quickest trigger-finger on registration day. However, they might automatically filter out some teams, since none of the waitlist teams that got in this year attended World Champs last year. I know that 5 out of the 6 waitlist slots this year went to 4176, 357 714, 2073, and the lucky 400th team, 48. I'm unsure who the 6th waitlist team was, but they're registered in the bunch somewhere.