Championships - Qualification Only Event?

[Mark Sheridan]

Originally Posted by Jaxom

Apparently I should have put my implied sarcasm tag in bold or a larger font.

Last year Bill kept saying that the concert wasn't the reason for the pit fields, and to expect them to continue. Anyone heard anything different?

I hope they changed it, it was very loud in the pits for teams right next to the arenas. It was not fair for those teams.

In regards to qualifying for championships, I am all for it to be merit based. My old team 766 would only go if we won a regional. I really think its more important to have a championship that actualy feels like that it is made up of the best robots of the country.

I would go as far as suggesting that the EI award and rookie all-star to not be guaranteed admissions to championships. I rather open the spots for two "wild card" candidates. Perhaps the EI, rookie all-star and all teams that reach the semifinals are in the running for the wild card spots. I am not sure the selection method. I suppose it could be either by judges or a scoring system similar to the district model.