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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
I don't have the time or energy to type up my full thoughts on this thread yet, but I want to briefly respond to this.
Team 1671 2015- Qualified via RCA
Team 5012 2015- Qualified via win as "3rd robot"
Team 1241 2013- Qualified via Engineering Inspiration
Team 973 2011- Qualified via waitlist
Team 177 2010- Qualified via waitlist
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Nobody is saying that one has to win an event to be a competitive team, but that you are more likely to get competitive teams by looking at event winners. Yes, there are outliers as you've mentioned here, all of which are very capable and deserving robots for the championship level that qualified by means other than winning an event, but they are exceptions to the rule, not examples.