[BrendanB]

If I had my way it would look a little like this:

Everything stays the same for qualifying for champs by winning awards at regionals, BUT your robot performance is what gets you in. Don't get me wrong, FRC teams getting the chance to go every few years isn't bad, but this is the Championship event. The best robots should get to go, not teams with mediocre to poor robots and good sponsors that get them the 10k. Our team did it in 2009 and then qualified by winning RCA. Yes, it was nice to know that you were going to Atlanta no matter how we did at GSR, but we hadn't earned the right to play with the best teams until we got RCA.

Just my thoughts.