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Originally posted by Todd Derbyshire
This system does seem to have its flaws
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Yes it does have its flaws, but if most of these "flaws" were corrected, even bigger, more controversial flaws would be brought up.
For example, the disagreement over what year should be used when determining whether a team is qualified for the nationals. Right now, it is the year before. At first this seems flawed because each year is an entirely different game with entirely different robots, but if you think about it you realize that if team qualifies for nationals just 1 month before the competition, then there is barely any time to organize a trip to florida and many qualified teams would not be able to attend. FIRST recognized this, took into account that good teams tend to perform well year by year, and made the decision that they felt was the best.
The only possible flaw in the qualification I can think of is that the 10 year teams are automatically qualified.
Oh yeah and rookie teams should start out with some amount of points because they did not have a previous year in which to qualify.