[EricH]

Originally Posted by EricDrost

Unfortunately, this isn't necessarily true.

With the exception of the district areas, half the teams are there because they won the event, or were finalists when someone won that already had a slot, and it's not untypical for a fair number of the rest to have been into elims. The district areas would tend to have a high number of elims participants going simply because that's one of the better ways to get enough points to qualify for Champs.

It's not a perfect generalization, granted, but it's a pretty fair estimate.