Attending multiple regionals

[ErikEdhlund]

I can understand your idea for powerhouse teams not attending more than their home event per year. However, there are quite a few positives by allowing powerhouse teams like 16, 71, 111, 1114 (not including Michigan teams due to their statewide tournaments) to attend more than their home event. There is a tremendous amount of experience and knowledge from powerhouse teams. I know from my experience on WildStang, we share what we can while at events. A few examples were at Midwest regional, we helped 896 rebuild a robot from the ground up and had a student be their coach and lead to them to producing a functioning robot. Powerhouse teams bring a lot of leadership and produce some unique strategies that teams in the future can utilize. I know that it may be unfair to have to go against a team of powerhouses, but there is always a silver lining to every cloud

[Ankit S.]

I do agree with you that powerhouse teams dominate, however I disagree with forcing powerhouses to compete at only their home.

If you forced powerhouses to compete at only one regional, then all the other teams would have to only compete at one regional as well, to make it not look like discrimination. If that happened, then there would be less collaboration that is seen.

My idea is to choose the alliance captain from the second place team and send them to championships. For ex. team X wins San Diego. Two weeks later, they win LA. Team Y was the captain of the other finalist alliance. Give team X's alliance partners and team Y an invitation to champs. Team X already has its invitation from San Diego. In the rare case that 2 or more of team X's alliance have already won as well, team Y's first and second pick would also be given an invitation.

This would allow for more teams to experience the aura of championship, and allow for greater mingling.

Just my thoughts.

[czeke]

Denying or limiting a team from attending multiple regionals, whether it's a powerhouse team, or not, is egregious. These teams enhance the regional, rather than detract from it. What they bring to the table, is usually of tremendous value, from both a design and organizational, point of view. If your team doesn't have the resources, that these teams possess, then learn from them, as to how they do it, and hopefully, with some intense forethought, you can be more clever , in your designs, then they are.

[Racer26]

Originally Posted by BeltSanderRocks

In the rare case that 2 or more of team X's alliance have already won as well...

This is not particularly rare, at least here in Canada. 1114 and 2056 have been winning together in multiple regionals since 2007.

[Ankit S.]

Originally Posted by 1075guy

This is not particularly rare, at least here in Canada. 1114 and 2056 have been winning together in multiple regionals since 2007.

My bad.

Edit: But what do you think of my idea?

[Racer26]

There's no need to change the existing system. When a team that already has a seat at CMP wins another seat, their seat is automatically opened up to the first available team on the wait list.