FRC Blogged-Standard District Point Structure

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

Wow, rookies get extra points for being rookies. I understand the desire to get rookies into district championships, but there already was a mechanism to give rookies extra help in rookie awards. Being a rookie is now just as important as winning the Chairman's Award, winning 5 qualifying matches, or winning both the quarter and semifinals; at least in terms of qualifying for DCMP.

Does anyone know where this idea came from? I've never seen it suggested or implemented at any particular region before.

I'm also a little bugged by this line:


Thus, any regional won by a team in a District system results in a Championship qualification spot that just disappears. The team then takes two slots for Champs, both the regional winner slot and one of the district slots.

1. The justification for Rookie/2nd year points is:

Extra points are awarded to Rookie and second year Teams in recognition of the special challenges Teams face in those
early years, and to increase the chance that they will make it to the District Championship to compete with their robots.
Like our dedicated Rookie awards, these additional points are intended to recognize and motivate newer participants in
FRC

I'm kinda undecided how I feel about that/Chairman's now getting points; on one hand, Chairman's still gives an autobid(so being a rookie isn't exactly equal to a Chairman's), but I think it's kind of a stretch to give that many points...Something like 5 for Rookies/3 for 2nd year sounds a little better.

2. Wow. I missed that in my initial skim. On one hand, it seems kind of wrong for it to count against the district in the case of a team not going to the District Championship, and still technically getting one of that District's spots. On the other hand, I'm sure the FIRST justification for that is to at least somewhat mitigate the "more bids than spots" issues.