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I agree with Rick and the idea that the championship should be purely award based. Only instead of just current year winners, previous year technology award winners should be allowed to qualify as well. John has a good point in saying that the judging needs to get better in the awards section, ie. making sure a team can actually do what they say they can do.
With the current even/odd system, yes it is fair to everyone if thats what your looking for, but it also doesn't make for the best championship. Maybe after all the qualified teams register there could be 50 spots for non-qualified teams to fill, and once a team that doesn't qualify goes to the championship they can't go untill every other team that wants to go has gone at least once. This would take a lot longer to get everyone down there, but at least it would still get them all there.
Dave, just out of curiosity are there any numbers being thrown around about how many teams would be able to go if it was open registration? Also, is the max teams in the new venue 210 or is that the max previous year qualified teams that can register and there will be added slots for the teams who qualify in this year?
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