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Originally posted by rees2001
Furthermore it is wrong to base nats on # & past year awards. As you can read in other threads judges make mistakes. We would already be just about qualified for next year if it weren't for a ref's miss-scoreing. It puts to much pressure on success & that's not what FIRST is all baout.
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While in your opinion, it may be "wrong" to base national qualifying on previous years or team #, this was actually a solution presented by some of the teams at the team forums in August. Looking at this year's competition, you can actually see why...there are some teams that, due to the increased costs of booking for nationals at the last minute, are not able to attend event though they have qualified at an event this year. Rather than make this an issue for EVERY team who attends, FIRST has implemented, at the suggestion of the teams, a system where a large number of the teams know well in advance that they are attending, and can do the necessary financial planning well in advance.