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Originally Posted by Navid Shafa
I know I've beat this dead horse before, but I'll gladly do it again. There should be a priority order posted, and teams should get pulled off that list in an automated fashion.
I don't care what that order looks like, but that process should be transparent.
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Well, look at it from the perspective of an RD.
Without question, it's going to be rookies first. Doesn't matter where they are in the waitlist you're going to make room for those rookies.
Next I'd be looking at late
first registrations from local teams. There are plenty of teams who did not register yesterday. I'm sure some are waiting on funding and others just forgot. But as a Regional Director you're going to want to service those in your region. That's your job, promoting FIRST in your region.
Beyond that it gets very very fuzzy. You've got international teams, you might want to give them extra preference for extra buzz. Then you have teams going to a second regional, both local and remote. If I'm a RD and seeing a waitlist spot from a nationally know team I might want them to give me some extra buzz for the event. If a team is registering for a third event I'm probably going to push them farther down the list unless there is some other mitigating reason to let them in.
Or to sum it up, you can't have a hard and fast rule because every region has different needs.