Wild Card 2013

[Jared Russell]

All 6 Greater Toronto West robots in the finals have qualified (though my prediction was wrong and there were no unused Wild Card spots).

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by Jared341

All 6 Greater Toronto West robots in the finals have qualified (though my prediction was wrong and there were no unused Wild Card spots).

1334 and 4716 both earned wildcards here. It jumped over 1310 as they earned a wildcard last week.

[dodar]

Because 2789 and 2468 just won Alamo, they both open up wildcard spots for 3997 and 801.

[Jeffy]

Looks like all 6 bots in Oklahoma will qualify too.
1806, 1986 have previous regional wins
1540 won chairman's at Portland.

Wildcard is just awesome.

[JohnFogarty]

With the luck of 1772 there could be a wildcard spot at the Western Canadian Regional.

[Bwalker]

Team Titanium and Team SWAT just won again at Oklahoma, openin two new wildcard slots

[dodar]

Also, since 79 and 379 already qualified, 2 slots were opened up at DC but only 4466 will use one. Which means 1 slot will be unused.

[xraymypanda]

3476 just got a well deserved slot when 1538 won in Inland Empire.

[Nuttyman54]

4579 got a wildcard from 1983 at Seattle.

[jessss]

Talon Robotics 2502 and WE ROBOT 2705 both received wild cards at the 10,000 Lakes Regional.

[George C]

Originally Posted by Gregor

1334 and 4716 both earned wildcards here. It jumped over 1310 as they earned a wildcard last week.

Yes, but we also won a spot by winning EI.

[Robo Hamsters]

Originally Posted by dodar

Also, since 79 and 379 already qualified, 2 slots were opened up at DC but only 4466 will use one. Which means 1 slot will be unused.

Actually Team 116, our alliance partner, is taking the other one.

[Basel A]

I attached a file that includes all teams that have qualified for the Championship during this season (and therefore all teams that can open wild card spots in their later events). It also shows those teams' Week 6 events. Finally, how each team qualified, in a separate worksheet.

12 wild card spots were opened in Week 5. Congratulations to 3476 at Inland Empire, 4466 at Washington DC, 2502 and 2705 at 10k Lakes, 2165 and 2341 at Oklahoma, 4716 at GTR West, 3997 and 801 at Alamo, and 4579 at Seattle. Those were only 10 teams because two teams earned the first "wasted" wild card spots of the season, having earned a wild card qualification at the same event as they otherwise qualified (could be CA, EI, or RAS). The two teams were 116 (EI) at Washington DC and 1334 (EI) at GTR West.

There have been 38 "extra" qualifications, 18 wild card spots generated, and 16 wild card spots used. The following teams are listed with (# of qualifications, # of wild card spots opened):
2056 (4, 2)
118 (3, 1)
525 (3, 1)
1114 (3, 2)
1983 (3, 1)
1986 (3, 2)
79 (2, 1)
116 (2, 0)
126 (2, 0)
128 (2, 0)
148 (2, 1)
359 (2, 1)
379 (2, 1)
701 (2, 0)
948 (2, 0)
1208 (2, 0)
1334 (2, 0)
1538 (2, 1)
1732 (2, 0)
1806 (2, 1)
1902 (2, 0)
2046 (2, 0)
2052 (2, 1)
2341 (2, 0)
2468 (2, 1)
2789 (2, 1)
3880 (2, 0)
3990 (2, 0)
4451 (2, 0)
4607 (2, 0)
4814 (2, 0)

There's a number of teams that could open wild card slots in Week 6. I'll list them here:
Colorado: 701, 2169 & 4499
Crossroads: 234, 447, 868, 1208, 1741 & 3138
Hawaii: 359, 1622 & 3880
Las Vegas: 987, 1717 & 4470
Long Island: 3137
Midwest: 111, 2338 & 3061
Pine Tree: 125, 172 & 3609
Razorback: 1730, 1912, 1939 & 3284
Silicon Valley: 118, 148, 192, 254, 295, 840, 846, 973, 1868, 2489 & 4543
Spokane: 1983 & 2471
West Canada: 771, 1305, 1334 & 1772

If any of these teams are Regional Champions at their respective competitions, they will open a wild card spot for a team from the Finalist Alliance.

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Robo Hamsters

Actually Team 116, our alliance partner, is taking the other one.

116 would have used the wild card spot, but 116 qualified for Championship based on the Engineering Inspiration Award they won immediately after the Wild Card announcement.

[2789_B_Garcia]

Hey, all,

A few questions about this list:

1. I checked the blue alliance website and the regional awards lists and saw that 4607 won an rookie all-star award (congrats!), how did they qualify a second time?

2. I saw that 1334 has an engineering inspiration award (congrats!), how did they qualify a second time?

Thanks for compiling this!