**FIRST EMAIL**/2013 Championship Registration/2013 FRC Season Dates and Deadlines/As

[Patrick Flynn]

Originally Posted by Alpha Beta

What seems odd at the moment is that a team who double qualifies in their first event and then wins a 2nd event only generates one wild card (1986), while a team who qualifies at an early event and double qualifies at a second event would generate two wild cards (340). Instead of 39 wild cards, this group would have only generated 22.

It is my understanding that a team like 340 would have only created one wildcard slot, this is because they won both EI and regional win at their second regional after already qualifying at their first regional. And only the RW spot would have become a wild card.

If a team who wins a Regional in 2013 – in other words, if a team who is a member of the Winning Alliance – has already qualified for Championship at an earlier Regional in 2013, a ‘Wild Card’ slot is created at the Regional which they just won.

It appears that EI and RCA would not create wild card slots even if the teams that are receiving them at their second regional had already qualified. This also means that a team that receives RW, RCA, RW in that order at three different regional would create one wild card slot while a team winning in the order of RCA, RW, RW would create 2.
I believe that this also means that the numbers you provided for total wild card slots should be lower because 2056 and 1114... would only have created 2 wild card slots because you have to exclude their RCA