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Originally posted by ttedrow
Any and all qualification for the championship event should be based solely on team merit.
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Well said. Short and to the point. I'd like to put on the table a system that would accomplish this in a fair manner. To be fair, we need a system that recognizes every way a team can excel in this competition. I think these criteria do that:
1). Any team who played on an alliance that went to the Semifinals at any event. (This way you can't qualify just by being picked. You have to earn it with success in the elimination matches.)
2). Any team who finishes in the top XX% during the qualification rounds. (This number can be tweaked according to how many teams have registered in FIRST, how many regionals there are, and how much room there is at the Championship event.)
3.) Any team who wins a Regional Award. (This helps to emphasize the parts of FIRST that aren't about competition.)
4.) Any previous champions or Chairman's Award winners.
A team can prove they can win in the elims (1), they can prove they are good in the qualification rounds (2), they can prove that they are good at some other aspect of FIRST (3), or they already have proven themselves (4).
This may look familiar to you. I had posted this
elsewhere, but I feel it's appropriate to repost it here as well.