Thread: Event Waitlist and Capacity Transparency
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Re: Event Waitlist and Capacity Transparency
A big problem I see with making it publicly available is that regionals can have unique problems requiring a RD to put his/her judgement to use. Priority tends to go towards local teams rather than away teams, many regionals have a good amount of rookies, some like Pittsburgh only has 1 (and a very good one at that). RDs are able to sort things out that a standard formula will get wrong. If a team is trying to scrape together money for registration, they're likely not able to travel very far. They can let the RD of a local regional know that that regional may be the team's only option. Certainly the RD will give them priority over a team from outside the region known to have a huge amount of resources. Things like this happen more often than you think.