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Originally Posted by nikeairmancurry
More playing time would be a huge factor as most teams coming out of the districts have played a minimum of 36 qualifying matches (2 districts and a championship) and all the elimination matches.
As Jim Zondag has stated in the past, the more hands on time with the robot, the better the performance.
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You're also not qualifying (for instance) the 1st, 2nd and 16th best robot at a sign-up-to-get-in event. District teams that qualify on points show consistently strong performance over at least 3 events. The guys that points-qualified from MAR this year were:
222 – Qtr8, WinC1, FINC6
225 – Win2, SmiC2, SMI7
316 – Fin4, WinC3, QTR3
293 – Win3, QtrC1, QTR9
303 – Smi5, Smi2, (QtrC5), QTRC3
193 – QtrC4, Fin3, QtrC2
Winner, Finalist, Semifinalist Quarterfinalist. Number indicates draft pick (C=Captain); capitalized indicates MAR Championship performance.
We qualified these teams instead of those that won at our sign-up-show-up events (districts). In such competitive regions, that's a very big difference. All 3 of the Region Champions also finished within the points cutoff (i.e. we were skipped to invite the full 6 teams), with 2729 and 2590 being the top 2. (We were right above 293.) Regionals don't have the setup to yield such a high concentration.
Overall, I thought FIRST did a great job with the rules this year - very simple and very clear for the most part. However, something is always going to fall through the cracks (and I don't mean that in a bad way - people need to know that it's practically impossible to do something perfectly). - Chris Hibner [more] 
21-05-2013, 21:55
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