FRC Blogged - 2013 FIRST Championship Registration and Request for Proposals for 2013

[MARS_James]

This bugs me a little from a math perspective:

As of this year you have the 12 teams who were on Einstein, The Engineering Inspiration award winner, the 16 Hall of Famers and the 7 teams that have sustained since 1992 bringing the total prequalified teams to 36. Assuming that we keep the number of teams at national the same as last year (400) we are left with 364 teams.

So I will add 3 events to the schedule for this season for simplicity sake bringing the Total to 57 events where teams can qualify for Championship. So we have The Chairmans Award Winner, Engineering Inspiration Award Winner, and the 3 winners of the competition (assuming no alternates are used) which brings the number of teams that qualify on merit (with no repeats which usually doesn't happen) to 342

So 22 teams can qualify from the wait list.

Here is where the math bugs me, if after this year we have the 1 new hall of fame member and only the three winners. So that is 30 slots next year which means under the current structure of qualifying and 400 teams at championships FIRST can only support 63 regionals which is only 9 more then we just had