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Other meta-criteria:
A selection process which is scalable to the number of teams.
If you have 100 teams or 1500 teams, the selection process would not need to change.
A selection process which allows us to focus our efforts on inspiring and mentoring students, building good robots and teams, rather than on winning regional competitions.
If a team is spending all of its energies at a regional to qualify for nationals, then it cannot, of necessity, spare resources to help other teams and make their experience more inspiring.
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