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Originally Posted by MARS_James
Because of Chairman's, Engineering Inspiration, and Rookie All Star, plus it would mean waiting until the last possible week for all 600 teams to make their plans to go to Champs.
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I think that most teams would be able to make travel plans after their regional when it becomes obvious if they will qualify or not. For example, there would be a theoretical maximum points a team can achieve at their event. Say they go undefeated, win the event and win chairman's. That level of points should put them in the Top 100 and therefore for all intents and purposes qualify them for worlds as a fall from 100 to 601 most likely isn't plausible. Now let's say you have an average event, win half your matches, get knocked out in quarters and win the imagery award. If that puts you in the 1000ish range then you probably aren't going to qualify. If anything I think it would allow more teams to make travel plans sooner because it's easier to track your chances of qualifying. This system would also make wildcards very easy to hand out. 403 can't go, 601 gets in and so on.
Granted this system places a premium on performance and I know a lot of people, myself included, like the thought of rookies going to champs based of the RAS, simple way to handle that is to give the RAS (Also Chairman's) a decent amount of points but not quite an auto qualification. Say you need to win x amount of matches as well or something along those lines to also keep the level of competition high.