Championship Waitlist

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by FIRST Stronghold Manual 7.5

Teams may join the Championship Saitlist to fill any remaining FIRST Championship slots not consumed by qualifying Regional or District teams. Teams who sign up for the Waitlist will be randomly selected at various points throughout the season in an effort to give teams as much time to make travel plans as possible while ensuring we do not exceed FIRST Championship capacity.

I'm not sure whether "season" is specific to competition season, or the period of time from kickoff til CMP.

Have any waitlist teams received word as to their CMP status yet?

[Jacob Paikoff]

I would guess no since only 30 teams are registered as of today.

Most likely season refers to competition season, which means they should be starting to send out notices soon.

[SenorZ]

Last year it seamed that they sent out invitations to waitlist teams AFTER they had a rough estimate of how many earned spots would be taken.

Once you're team has completed all of its registered competitions, and has NOT earned a spot at champs, then they send you the invite.

I think we got our invite during the week following our second regional

[Anthony Galea]

Originally Posted by SenorZ

Once you're team has completed all of its registered competitions, and has NOT earned a spot at champs, then they send you the invite.

This is not true. Last season, we got our invite before our second of three events, and I also know that many MSC qualifying teams got notified before MSC, which created an extra spot in the district.

[SenorZ]

Originally Posted by 3175student17

This is not true. Last season, we got our invite before our second of three events, and I also know that many MSC qualifying teams got notified before MSC, which created an extra spot in the district.

Hmmm. There is a very distinct possibility I am remembering things wrong. It's happened before. But for us, we did receive our invite within one week of our Week 5 event.

[tindleroot]

Originally Posted by SenorZ

Hmmm. There is a very distinct possibility I am remembering things wrong. It's happened before. But for us, we did receive our invite within one week of our Week 5 event.

We also received our invitation (somehow; we had gone to worlds the previous year) before the district championship last year (as had another Indiana team), so at the end of the district champs another team knew that they were advancing to worlds due to the spot we received.

[Lil' Lavery]

It seems like teams are beginning to get on via the wait list.

175 teams are currently registered. Only 144 spots have been generated by regionals so far. Some of those will be HoF/Legacy/2015 Champs spots.

[Anthony Galea]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

It seems like teams are beginning to get on via the wait list.

175 teams are currently registered. Only 144 spots have been generated by regionals so far. Some of those will be HoF/Legacy/2015 Champs spots.

Where is this list coming from?

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by 3175student17

Where is this list coming from?

https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index....2016&event=cmp

[tindleroot]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

It seems like teams are beginning to get on via the wait list.

175 teams are currently registered. Only 144 spots have been generated by regionals so far. Some of those will be HoF/Legacy/2015 Champs spots.

None of the listed teams are there from waitlist.

144 spots have been generated by regionals.
There are 7 legacy teams.
From my count there are 17 active Hall of Fame teams. 1 of them (191) is legacy.
There are 4 Winners from last year's champs.
There are 4 EI winners from last year's champs.
So 144+7+16+4+4=175

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by tindleroot

None of the listed teams are there from waitlist.

144 spots have been generated by regionals.
There are 7 legacy teams.
From my count there are 17 active Hall of Fame teams. 1 of them (191) is legacy.
There are 4 Winners from last year's champs.
There are 4 EI winners from last year's champs.
So 144+7+16+4+4=175

Fair enough. But this does mean that every single week 1/2 team accepted and paid their invitation to the Championship, which would be truly unprecedented.

[MechEng83]

The earliest waitlist invite I can confirm from last year was after week 4 events had concluded.

[Zach101]

Is there a form that we have to fill out, where will it be sent to, and where can I find more general information?

[Sperkowsky]

We have 7 and are still hoping :/ so the odds of a person with 1 getting it are definitely lower them 20%

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[jkelleyrtp]

We got RAS at our regional last year and are on this year's wait list. Would we have 5/6 tickets? What are the chances?