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Originally Posted by Caleb Sykes

Can you explain in greater detail what you mean by this?

Yes. At a regional, you only get to worlds by winning the event, Chairman's, Engineering Inspiration, or Rookie all star. In reality, the only 2 robots that truly good is the captain and first pick of the winning alliance. The other 4 ways to get to worlds doesn't require a truly good robot.

Now in IN District, those same 6 spots are true. Plus, the next 4 robots in district points get to go to worlds. Most of the district points are awarded by being a good robot at events. So then, you have 6 good robots that get in plus, the 4 robots that don't necessarily have to be good to get in to worlds. IN District is really small. bigger district that have more than 10 spots have more robots to award worlds qualifications. In many other districts, it's those same 4 spots that don't necessarily require your robot to be good, plus however many spots they have left to award to good robots via the district point system. so if your district has 20 spot, then it will be those really good 16 robots, plus the 4 other robots that could be good. This year, we had 14 teams get into worlds from Indiana. 3 from the wait list, 1 being a sustained original team, and the other 10 were the ones I just described above. I felt like out of those 14 teams, 10 of those teams were truly the best 10 teams in Indiana.

So in conclusion, if you have a good robot, you are basically guaranteed a spot to worlds. Some really good robots don't get in due to bad luck and never winning or getting an award. So basically what I am saying is that the district point system is a very accurate representation of good robots for the whole season vs. having good luck during 1 week and getting in.

I hope what I said Clarified what you needed. Sorry for the insanely long post...