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Signing Up for Competitions

October: Sign up for competitions. You pick the number of competitions you want to attend (1, 2, 3, ...) but not specific competitions.

December: Entry fees due. You pay for whatever you committed to or you drop an event.

Three weeks into Build Phase: All teams bid on competitions. You make your bid based on your first, second, third, fourth preference. You must indicate more preferences than competition bids, since you might not get your first, second, third, ... preference.

One week later: During the next week, the competition committees at each regional select from their bids. They extend invitations to the number of teams necessary to fill up their regionals. Teams are notified so that they can make travel plans.

Advantages:
1. Gives the regional committees some say in who will attend their regionals. There have been "incidents" where a regional committee might not want to see a team return, at least for a time. This would give them some power of enforcement.

2. Teams which know exactly what they want to do right now get first dibs on most spots. Teams which are less clued in sometimes have to take whatever is left. Everyone would be on an equal footing with this system.

3. If you are having an awesome build phase, you might want to bid for the "tougher" regionals. If you are falling apart, you might want to pick a less prestigious stage to play in. Especially with qualifications for nationals, you probably want to save your energy for a year where you nail the game, rather than one where you're going to waste your time.

4. Regional committees can balance the types of teams attending their regional. If they want to have a "fresh, new look" they can get more 1st and 2nd year teams. If they want to have a "veteran" competition, they can select some lower number teams.

5. Corrections can be made between overly full regionals and lightly attended regionals.


Disadvantages:
The current system is pretty good and works reasonably well. This proposed system would add complexity to the planning process. If the regional planning committees don't want the added responsibility and work, then this would be an unwanted imposition.