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Originally Posted by NRLeuenb

It is amazingly uninspiring, thanks for sharing your thoughts. Our first competition is next weekend, and prior to discovering this, we were very excited about it. After finding this out, all of the energy was sucked out of the team. We know we can win if we try hard enough, but for us to win and then not advance? It really disappointed them. Their goal for this year was to make it to worlds. They made it to super regionals last year, but not farther, and they felt they'd learned from their mistakes and could go farther. And now.... they may not go farther, even if they do win, because they weren't selected in a lottery.

The two NorCal competitions next weekend will both advance their winning alliance captain to the NorCal championship, provided that team has not advanced already. Google has no host team, and Burlingame is a two-field event, so they have more advancement slots. (Saratoga, another two-field event, advanced four teams. I believe Burlingame would be the same.) The official Advancement Summary page has more details. I hope that helps.