FRC Blogged - 2014 FIRST Championship Eligibility

[Hallry]

Posted on the FRC Blog, 10/3/13: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...ip-Eligibility

2014 FIRST Championship Eligibility

Blog Date: Thursday, October 3, 2013 - 14:30

Championship eligibility criteria for 2014 has just been posted here: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...ility-criteria

Eligibility is the same as it was for the 2013 FIRST Championship, Wild Cards and all.

Note that with the growth of our program, the number of waitlist slots we will be able to offer teams is likely to be very small. We can’t predict the exact number, as it depends partially on the rate at which teams offered merit-based slots accept, but it would not surprise me if we could offer only 20 or fewer waitlisted teams slots at the FIRST Championship.

I’ll blog again soon.

Frank

Well, nothing's changed. I have to say though, I was honestly quite afraid when I first saw the title of this post; I thought that the day had come where they had to adjust the Championship eligibility somehow. But, that time will come eventually. I do wish that the wildcard system was adjusted so that any prequalified teams, not just teams that qualified earlier in the season (winning, ei, ras, chairmans, or other wildcard), generated wildcards though. With all of the double-qualifying, I'd also expect more than 20 teams getting in off the waitlist...maybe 50. We'll see though.