Championships - Qualification Only Event?

[jon-s]

Originally Posted by Donut

How is FLL done?

AFAIK, for FLL World Champs, the various regionals are entered in a kind of lottery. The lottery winners get to go to FLL World Champs. A regional is not excluded if they get to send a team. The regionals that send teams to the World Championship are only anounced after registration for the competitions in announced.

I think the system above only applies to US teams though (or possibly North America), and that foreign ones (due to a significantly smaller number of foreign regionals), at least currently, automatically send a team. I think this is to make sure there are significant numbers of teams attending FLL World Champs that are not from the US (or North America)