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Originally Posted by Mr. Van
Does this mean that a team that is "local" (and perhaps desirable for some reason) is free to try to get into a different regional knowing that their space at the local regional is "saved" for them?
[I'm just speculating, I'm sure this never happens...]
I'm liking more and more the idea of having a published criteria and opening this all up.
- Mr. Van
Coach, Robodox
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I think this is actually an argument in favor of letting the RDs control the waitlist.
When someone says that some spots are reserved for local teams, what they really mean is that those spots are reserved for local teams that couldn't get in for some reason. As an example, if a team from Michigan gets on the waitlist and a team from a Minneapolis suburb is on the waitlist because simply didn't register early enough, the Minneapolis team will almost certainly get off the waitlist first.
If the RD sees that the Minneapolis team registered for the Milwaukee regional first and seems to have made Minneapolis a second priority, that team might not get off the waitlist.
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Originally Posted by Tungrus
Reward incompetency/tardiness? Fairness? Those who are wait-listed or lost a spot of their preference due to such reason know how it feels! Now questioning anyone's integrity will open the ugly can of worms.
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There are a very large number of reasons that a team can end up on a waitlist for an event, and incompetency/tardiness is one of the least common (unless you consider registering for events at 1pm when it opened ad noon "tardy").
As Jon Stratis pointed out earlier, one factor an RD might look at when choosing which team to take off the waitlist first is how many volunteers that team will provide to the event. If team A could provide 10 volunteers but registered an hour after team B (who can't provide any volunteers), doesn't it make sense to pick team A first?