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Re: Why Give Open Bids to the Championship?

An "if I were king of FIRST" post:

Instead of a "first to click" system I would propose a points/merit/time based system and let everybody know what this order was in say June.

The points in this system would be similar to Michigan's championship points structure with the individual match winning points removed (but leaving in alliance selections for playoffs, playoff match values, and winning bonuses). Also added to the structure would be the number of seasons since your team has been to championship (by any means) cubed (this is a massive bonus for teams that haven't been for three years or more and that's the point). Teams that go to more then one regional (and all MI teams) would get the highest scored regional (or district) they attended that year. Points are awarded post-season and the order doesn't change midseason.

In May / June each year FIRST would release "The List" which would list every team that has been active in either of the last two years in descending points order. Teams would then have until a fixed date (Oct 15?) to submit to FIRST a decision on pass or play their open bid to championship (teams can change their minds up until the deadline, after the deadline a team may change from play to pass but not the other way around). One week after the deadline a revised list of just the teams who elected to use an Open Bid would be released. The top teams on the list (i.e. the ones with the most points) would get their bids right then and there and those who are leftover would become the waitlist.

If a team wins a merit based bid they are removed from the list for open bids and it opens to the next team in line. This is important because of the next bit:

Every team that uses an open bid to get in to championships would have their point total reset to 0. This would happen before the current season's points are added so they would still have points from whatever awards they earned in the current season and that would place them ahead of Rookies (who could, under this system, apply to championships from the bottom of the list) and teams that have been inactive for two years.

It allows teams to know in the spring what their chances are of getting an open bid and lets them make decisions about it besides hoping that their internet connection doesn't go out on the wrong day.
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