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Originally Posted by TCMJ1816
While watching Top 25 last night they brought up the point that many regional competition only offer 8 qualification plays per team. In Minnesota we have 208 teams, and a vast majority of those teams only get one event a year.
I see 2 major issues with this:
-This make the $5000 it costs to register for events pretty crazy, $625 a match isn't appealing for many of the low budget teams around FIRST.
-This also leaves the teams that do qualify for champs hugely unprepared. Most MN teams at champs will have ~20 plays, versus district teams that will have 40+ plays.
There definitely isn't a great solution to this problem, other than going to districts, but that has been addressed in the past.
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40... Thats almost the min that most district teams will have. We aren't normal so coming into CMP with 100+ matches isn't common, but coming in with 60-80 is fairly easy to do in districts.
So no, it's a disadvantage to the teams coming into teams with only 14 matches (8 QM + 6 EM). It's also a stupid high cost per match.
It's also a big issue because the ranking algorithm gets more accurate the longer it can run.
In short, absolutely not.