[FRC Blog] Wild Cards 2013 and the Harlem Shake

[Racer26]

They should reword it so it is "Any TEAM already qualified to championship on a merit based slot earning a 2nd merit based Qualifying slot to Championship immediately opens a Wildcard slot to the Wild Card pool at the regional the 2nd slot is earned at."

This would mean that if a TEAM earns two spots at the SAME event, a wildcard is created, and any subsequent slots they earn ALSO create wildcards.

Using 2012/2013 in Canada as an example,
GTR East, Wk 2:
1114 wins Chairman's
1114/2056/1219 win Regional Winner
2809 wins Engineering Inspiration
4334 wins Rookie AllStar
610 earns wildcard slot as Finalist Alliance Captain (thanks to 1114's double score).

Waterloo, Wk 4:
2056 wins Chairman's
1114/2056/4372 win Regional Winner
771 wins Engineering Inspiration
4069 wins Rookie AllStar
1503/2852/244 all earn wild card slots because of 1114/2056's combined 3 slots that they don't need.

GTR West, Wk 5:
1241 wins Chairman's
2056/4001/2200 win Regional Winner
1305 wins Engineering Inspiration
4001 wins Rookie AllStar
3161 and 2634 earn wildcard seats as 2056 and 4001 each have an extra, and Finalist #2 (1114) is already qualified.

2013: any seats earned by 1114 2056 or 4334 generate wildcard slots as they're already merit-based qualified teams because they were an Einstein alliance in 2012.

Whether or not they change it, I can see this meaning A LOT more Canadian teams will get to go to CMP on Merit slots, since 6 to 8 of Canada's slots are typically eaten up by 1114 and 2056.