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

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

Can anyone see a bunch of teams left out in the cold try to jump on Chesapeake for a last chance regional situation? I think having MAR and MSC the same weekend diminishes that, but cash-rich teams in the northeast or deep south trying to put a quality robot in CMP could sneak into Baltimore.

2614 also won the RCA in North Carolina. Why couldn't FIRST retroactively reward a Wild Card to a team in Pittsburgh because of this? This could all become very confusing endeavor to understand. VAR was weaker than the tea they serve in the college cafeteria last year, but 384's EI and tournament wins would have allowed the alliance captain 346, one of three robots that kept the regional OPR average from flatlining, got left out in the cold and fell to like, 30th in the highly competitive DCR. I do support the idea of wild cards, and as I hinted earlier, this is a step in the right and expected direction.


Is the Wild Card system the one FRC deserves, or just the one it needs right now?

It is a gamble to register for an event with the goal of getting a wild card slot. It is a risk i wouldnt take and I doubt most teams will take because it is dependent on your competitors success months down the road.

Based on Karthik's information this isn't a game changer. I see this as FIRST moving away from the waitlist.