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Originally Posted by Joe G.
Perhaps a better model would be what VEX does with their "US Open" championship event. This event takes place a few weeks before the official championship, and invitations are given to teams who almost, but didn't quite, qualify for the world championship. The event is near championship scale in its own right, and gives teams that experience, but it doesn't suggest itself to be of equal standing to the World Championship. I believe that in the past, but not anymore, teams which performed well at the US Open could accept reserved slots at the World Championship a few weeks later, if the financial/travel burden was worth it for them.
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This has worked well for RECF for the past few years.
I know many teams that travel to the US Open and VEX worlds ! Even the VEX summer games was a neat idea.
Essentially IRI has become one of these types of events for FIRST.
If your team wins FRC Champs or IRI, then you have won a major championship.