[FRC Blog] Wild Cards 2013 and the Harlem Shake

[Patrick Flynn]

Originally Posted by 1075guy

I could see why they maybe wouldn't want to do the 2012 Einstein bit of what I'd said, but I don't really see why they don't want to ACTUALLY qualify six teams at each regional, beyond that doing that alone gets mighty close to the 400 team cap at CMP.

I think the reason behind this is that it would be quite easy to chose what regional to go to based upon what teams are going to be there. I mean who wouldn't want to go to 1114 and 2056 first regional where 2056 is submitting for CA, and 1114 has the CCA there is a good chance, that the two of them would claim 4 awards here, two winners, EI, and CA the two of them would only need 1 of these award spots. 2056, not having the automatic bid assuming this isn't counting the 2012 Einstein teams. This largely increases my chances of getting a spot at champs.

Bottom line I think they want to give out more spots for top competing teams but they don't want teams trying to beat the system to get spots to champs