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Originally Posted by BMSOTM
My proposed solution is three-pronged: - Replace Finalist alliance position with district points for Wildcard distribution. This creates a system that can scale to include more than three teams, including those not on the Finalist alliance.
- If a team declines a CMP spot, pass a wildcard down the district points rankings until all spots are filled. The Stand Points Model was created to be an ideal assessment of team performance, so it seems perfect for this.
- Distribute extra Wildcard slots, which I call Bonus Slots, to large regionals. It seems silly to me that the 31-team Waterloo Regional and the 66-team Palmetto Regional qualify the same number of teams for CMP. This can be done by awarding the remaining "waitlist" slots to regionals based on the number of teams attending minus a certain value, which I used 40 for. While this doesn't create a strictly geographic distribution, it would be a much better approximation than the current system.
I put together a Google Spreadsheet demonstrating my proposal. |
Personally, I really like this idea. You can use the district point system to rank teams at a regional event based on their performance (at that event only). Give the initial 6 slots to the winners, RA, CA, and EI, then any additional slots to the top X teams at the event, based on the event size. So a 30 team regional might just get those first 6 slots, while a 60 team regional would get 12. Obviously, the numbers would need to be tweaked accordingly each year, as they are now for districts, but it would completely solve the problem we currently have in MN - 4 60-team events at 12 teams per event would be 48 teams, and some of those would go to Wisconsin, Iowa, the Dakota's, or whoever else comes here to play.
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Originally Posted by Ginger Power
Make it another judge's award. "Best on Field Robot Performance" or something along those lines. Or give EI to the best engineered robot, which is likely one of the be one of the best on the field. There isn't a simple solution like there is with Districts.
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Why isn't there? The district point system can be adopted to a single event format easily, in order to give points to teams at that event based on robot and award performance.