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Originally Posted by EricH
I don't understand how you can connect what I'm saying to the district ranking system. If you care to explain, then I'll care to respond.
But if it has anything that involves teams making FLIGHT reservations <1 week before CMP, you bet your boots that it'll be a non-starter. 2 weeks is pushing it as it is. Hotel reservations? HAH! At least those can be held by FIRST...
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I'm mostly referring to an in season decision. I agree that a preseason decision would probably work out terribly. But my point is FIRST has always needed to decide which teams deserve to go to district championships and who goes to worlds. Teams have never complained about that. And the same goes for the regional system, which if im being honest, is a horrible system for deciding who gets to go.* I don't see how deciding which teams get to go to the division A champs and which teams get to go to the division B champs is any different. As for logistics, in districts teams would be finding out where they stand in the rankings at the same time that they do now. Maybe there are some more teams that can't book ahead of time because they would have been sure they could qualify for a championship before district champs, but nowe aren't sure which one, but for the majority nothing has changed. As for teams still in the regional system, I think people would just have to get used to a system where 3 teams qualify for division A (say alliance captain, 1st pick, and chairman's), and the other 3 go to division B. It's not perfect, but like I said, it's not like the current system is good either.
* I could talk about how I think it is far too biased towards non-engineering awards and luck, but the aspect of it that I think everyone can agree is terrible is how heavily your chances of qualifying are based on the quality of the regional, how late in the season it is, and how many regional you can afford to attend, rather than how much you actually deserve to go.