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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
So, you think winning 2 qualification matches at the DCMP is more important than winning a Chairman's Award at a district event? Because that's the two are currently valued.
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You're choosing to ignore the fact that the Chairman's automatically qualifies the winner to
attend District Championship. That is worth significantly more than 10 points, especially for teams on the bubble of making it to District Championship, because no team that failed to qualify for the DCMP managed to make it to Worlds (through the district model, this does not include waitlist/outside regionals).
The teams 34-39 in the PNW region all easily qualified for the DCMP without the CA award (the fewest any of them scored is 69 points heading into the event). They all finished with 118.5 points as an average, all within one point of the team above and below them. In this case, if any of these teams won the Chairman's award, the most they would have needed is just three points to qualify, not even close to 10. The only other team within striking distance to a birth to Worlds AND ALSO won a Chairman's award was at 108 points, meaning that instead of the 10 point gift, they would have needed 21(!!!) points from the CA to qualify for Worlds. To me, that seems excessive, though I am sure it is not to everyone.
I'm sure there have been a few cases across the country since district implementation where a District Chairman's winning team failed to qualify for Worlds based on the difference of a few (three or fewer) points. But since the CA automatically qualifies a team for the next level of competition, I honestly think that the level of compensation is rather fair. Please excuse me for using "irrelevant" before, I think the proper term I was searching for was "reasonable".