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Originally Posted by Chris Fultz
Remember a few years ago there were no "wildcards".
If the entire winning alliance had already qualified, then it was possible that no one from a regional would get the invite to the CHPs based on the robot competition. The wildcard system extended those invites to the finalist alliance to address this.
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Yep, and that's good. But it doesn't address the issue that at a 64 team event, in a normal best case fewer than 10% of the teams can be invited to Championships. (I'm going to ignore the edge case where the winning alliance used a backup coupon making the potential 7)
Last year after the North star regional where only 4 out of 60 teams were invited to Championships I suggested that the wildcards extend into the seeds after using the whole finalist alliance based on the regional size.
My equation was something like Ceiling(count of teams /10) would be the guaranteed number of Championship invites. So if only 4 new teams were invited to champs at a 40 team event, that would be the end of it. But if only 4 new teams were invited at a 61 team event, that would generate 3 wildcards which would go first to the finalist alliance, then through the uninvited top (regional) seeds in order.
That wouldn't punish large regional events simply for being large the way the current system works.
Additionally, since regional teams cannot enter district events, any district based team that wins a slot at a regional should automatically generate a wildcard at that regional for one of the teams under the regional system. The way the system is now, a district based team can come into a regional event and eliminate championship opportunities for a regional based team. Because regional based teams are not allowed to enter district events, the reverse cannot happen.