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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
I'm open for recommendations on how to fix it - any you send me will be presented to the rest of the RPC. We've looked at it from every angle we can think of, analyzing what the changes would be if we counted second events (as an average with the first event), analyzing the differences between teams that earn a spot at States versus those that earn a spot at Champs... We haven't found a better way that's fair to every team.
Counting a second event simply gives an unfair advantage to those teams that can afford more events. And for the record, that's 42 teams out of 208 this year - 20%. Allowing those 20% to count their second event gives them a benefit over the other 80% of teams in the state. This is the same decision that was made in districts - there, they count a team's first two events, because every team gets two events. If you sign up for a third? Well, that's some more practice and experience for you, but it doesn't count towards your ranking.
2175 and 3130 did really well at North Star, it was fun watching them play. But that was their second event. It's tough, but that's the only fair way we've found to make it work.
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My idea for a fix would be to count the first regional in the team's home state. So if a team went to their first regional in another state and went to their second regional in their own state the regional they had in their own state would count. Of course if a team only had a regional in another state, then that regional would count. This structure would mean that the teams you competed against to get to your state championship would be teams in your state. The teams that have been mentioned previously as deserving to go to state didn't go because the we're competing mostly against teams who were not from their state.