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Originally Posted by logank013
Current Amount of teams qualified to worlds (on the Worlds list here): 420
Teams Left to send:
-Peachtree: 12
-Michigan: 76
-MAR: 22
-NE: 34
-IN: 12
Total: 576
Total at worlds: 608
Spots left for waitlist: 608-576 = 32
So based on my calculations, we should have 32 more spots (at least) to raffle off to the waitlist. I'm asking if anyone knows why FIRST hasn't raffled off these 32 spots yet. Thank you.
Edit: As I thought about this, is this so less teams that will qualify get waitlisted? For instance, 1024 is ahead by a lot in IN. Odds are, they just need to show up and rank well in qualifications and they secure a spot for themselves in the "next-in" teams. Is this to prevent good teams like 1024 getting the waitlist spot? So is that why they are waiting until after week 7 events to do the rest of the waitlist teams? Thanks again. |
Several of your numbers aren't quite correct.
I believe the target is 600 teams. There were 608 last year due to a number of circumstances. I don't know an official number, so FIRST could potentially do whatever they want.
Indiana has 9 spots, not 12.
The 420 number includes teams from districts that have already qualified, for example, 868 is already registered, but they're taking one of the 9 Indiana spots, so there is actually another waitlist spot opened up for that.
The calculation becomes much harder to know how many teams, and I'm pretty sure there hasn't been an official decree of "xxx number of teams, exactly" to allow for some wiggle room.
I doubt FIRST is not releasing waitlist spots to see if a "good team" qualifies on their own. They have provisions in districts to give the waitlist spot for an in-district qualifying team to the next-in-line team. I know this because we got 135's waitlist spot last year. There isn't a reason to wait to hand those out.