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I am mixed on this issue.

For the next three years, the FIRST Championships should include these teams:

1. Top performing teams from the current year
...regional winners
...regional Chairman's Award winners
...teams who can accumulate a certain # of awards divided by the number of regionals attended

2. Teams who have not attended a Championship in the past. FIRST could give "retroactive" points to teams who have not attended a Championship. These teams can accumulate points over many years. These points add up to a Championship qualifying level. Then they attend a championship and their point level gets back to zero.
- team XYZ has never attended the Championship
- they got 1 award in 99
- they got 2 awards in 2000
- they got 1 award in 2003
- these four awards put them over a watermark so that they qualify for Championships in 2004.

3. All Hall-of-Fame teams (Championship Chairman's Award teams)

However, after the 3 upcoming years in Atlanta, this system needs to be entirely we-worked. At that time, I feel that there should be 4 or 8 Super-Regionals which will be elimination tournaments for the top-performing teams. These super-regionals can be 160-200 teams each, and those are the competitions where teams can accumulate points to attend. These super-regionals would have a similar qualification process that Championships have seen up until now. At that point, the Championship qualification criteria could be a mix of awards and performance-based, where the top 20-40 teams at each super-regional would attend the Championships... and those teams could be determined with a mix of performance and GPish (Chairman's Award, etc.) criteria.

As others have said... good luck to Dave and the rest of the committee.

Andy B.

btw... I am not in favor of granting the teams who have been in all 13 years an automatic bid, for what it is worth. And... I am proud to be on one of those teams.
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