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Originally Posted by AGPapa
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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It's definitely an odd layout. District teams can "blackhole" regional slots, and then go on to generate additional slots for their own region even if they end up winning an award/event winner slot at DCMP (which used to be unable to be passed down - see 341 in 2012/2014, and 11 in 2014). MAR still got our full allocation of 18+3 slots in 2014 and managed to eat/blackhole 4 slots from outside regionals. Seems pretty silly.
So no matter what, districts will get exactly their allocation (plus the # of prequalified teams), while regionals need to pray that district teams don't come and eat one of their slots for no gain. It can also hurt the district, either by skewing distribution of slots, or by qualifying teams who woudn't have qualified after attending the DCMP.
Easy solutions is to:
1. Make district teams ineligible to compete for DCA/EI/RAS at regional events.
2. Open a wildcard slot (at the regional) if a district team wins a regional event.
Then:
A) Take a slot away from the district's "points" slots (reasonable if they have many), and allow that team to register for WCMP
OR
B) Prevent district teams from qualifying via winning a regional altogether, make them do it via their DCMP (possibly harsh, but solves the "winning a weak regional" issue).
District teams should be competing within their district for the award slots, full stop. The rest is pretty justifiable.