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Re: FRC Blog - District Slot Allocations at 2015 FIRST Championship

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Originally Posted by Oblarg View Post
This would, for all intents and purposes, be the same as not allowing teams to compete in both regionals and districts. I don't believe anyone would plan to pay the (significant) cost of attending a regional if they knew they'd have no chance of qualifying for championships at it.
There are plenty of teams who attend regionals in far-away places that they don't hope to win. There are 5 MAR teams who were outside of the top 50 last year who are signed up for regionals this year. Four of those teams are going to Florida.

Additionally, plenty of teams sign up for 3rd District events that don't help qualification (although these are cheaper).

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Originally Posted by Frank;
Districts are able to send their allocated total, regardless of whether those teams earned those slots in the District or outside the District. Districts may add to this total by having pre-qualified teams or having teams selected from the waitlist. Allowing a District to not consider slots earned at Regionals in their allocations would lead to over-representation of teams from the District at Championship, and cause fairness concerns from a non-District team perspective, as non-District teams are not able in any way to earn those guaranteed in-District Championship slots.
And yet the regional teams still don't get this spot back. It is unfair for them either way! All this does is help qualify bad teams with deep pockets from the district regions.

Under the current system a bad team could win a weak regional, not earn enough points to qualify in-district, and still go to champs instead of a more deserving team with more points.

Imagine if this took place in a regional system. A team wins a weak regional elsewhere. Then, at their 'home' regional, they lose in the finals and one of the winners doesn't qualify. It makes no sense.

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Originally Posted by scottandme View Post
It may be a stopgap, but the intent of that rule is still lost on me, and sets the stage for some problematic scenarios. I think "reverse-wildcard" is the best name for it.
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