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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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How else do you propose FIRST does it? Like Nate said, its not really logical to tell a team 2 weeks before nationals that they are qualified. It is hard enough to get bookings at Disney when you try 2 months in advance. I think that using a points system and then alternating from odd and even numbered teams is fine way to qualify. I know your side of the arguement: that if you have a great bot this year but your robot lacked last year, why should you be disallowed to compete at Nationals. The solution: I believe that FIRST does allow some teams to qualify based on their current year robots if they are exceptionally good but I would verify that with someone else