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Re: Event Waitlist and Capacity Transparency

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Originally Posted by Jared Russell View Post
Even with these numbers, teams should understand that seeing # spots == # waitlisted teams is NOT a firm guarantee one way or another. I have seen plenty of regionals squeeze in an extra team or two at the last minute...and I've also seen late rookie registrations snatch up the last remaining spot.
This is one instance of a fallacy in FIRST. While FIRST publishes a lot of necessary information, stuff that the >10% of the highly connected community would like to see public mean nothing and in some cases can negatively affect the 90% of the community who doesn't. That group has people who wouldn't understand what matters and what doesn't with regards to a published waitlist of any degree and could cause enough headaches to bury the data again.