FRC Blogged - Championship!

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Originally Posted by IndySam

So you are saying having one more match is so important to you that you would deny 40 teams their chance to play?

Depends what's important to you.

Is championships a magical rainbow and unicorn filled experience that all teams should be able to go to, even if they have objectively awful robots?

Or is championships the venue for showing off the absolutely best robots to create the highest level of competition possible in order to create a sport that the general public would actually want to watch?

The "problem" isn't just the wait list though. It's RAS and to a lesser degree EI/CA. If you look purely at the quality of the robots, it's clearly less than that of those who qualified through performance. From a competitive standpoint some of these teams have no business being at Champioships, but FIRST seems to be pretty clearly on the rainbows and unicorns side, not the competitive side.