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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
Why does FIRST have to ensure proportional representation from all areas?
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It really doesn't but with a potential increase of 200 teams I would like it to. If FIRST told Florida that we had to use the District point system to determine who were the highest ranked teams in our state not attending (according to my math to be represented beyond our Regional guarantee spots, we would get 2 more slots.), 744 and 1251 would have been able to attend, personally speaking I feel they were more than championship caliber bots with 744 giving us a tough finals game in South Florida and our twin 1251 was just as tough as we were and arguably the better catcher.
But personally I would rather there be some new determining factor that is fair to all teams other than who can click a mouse the fastest.
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Originally Posted by dodar
Almost no where in FIRST is an equal distribution of CMP slots to number of teams. Florida for instance, there are 12 total possible slots for CMP and yet Florida hold roughly 4% of FIRST; this would be 17-18 slots of CMP. Florida actually sent something like 10-12 teams to CMP this year too.
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We are actually more like 2.5% of all teams so one could argue previously we were over represented