FRC Blogged-Standard District Point Structure

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Originally Posted by Kims Robot

What I am more interested in are the questions that are not touched on in this document & blog:
1. How many World CMP slots is each District going to get?
2. How do Legacy/HoF teams play into the number of slots? What if a Legacy/HoF wins an outside regional slot?
3. What auto-qualifies a team for World CMP from DCMP? Chairmans is noted in the document, but does that mean 0-EI and 0-RAS auto-qualify (even though at regionals EI & RAS have auto-qualified teams in past years).
4. How many of each award do District Championships get to give out (CA, EI, RAS, WF, DL come to mind).
I posted those in the comments.

I, along with a very distinguished list of seasoned mentors in NE led by Jess, was on the team in NE that worked out the points model that we sent up to HQ. We spent a lot of hours discussing these very points. Given the points model we now have, the next discussion, and I was hoping Frank would release this info now.

I will also tell you, there was compromise. Some of the things we sent up are in the list,some are not. Some are tweaked. I will not get into a discussion of what was changed or what was not. But I will tell you we put together a prett extensize spreadsheet with 5 different iterations of a points model, 1 using MAR, 1 using FiM and 3 differnt NE models. Bottom line is this, the only teams that were affected were the bottom 8-10 (assuming a pool of 60 DCMP qualifiers). In one iteration with points for judged awards for example, some teams got into District Champs. In another iteration a different set of teams got in. Rookie points/no rookie point bonus, for a majority of teams, the top 80%, it will not make a difference, they will remain. We used my own team as the guinea pig. We are a 2 time Chairmans award winner, mulitple KPCB, never won a Regional nor were a finalist. In some models we were in, in others we were not. We have taken on the task of changing and improving our on field performance and not risking the INSPIRATION that happens to get us to DCMP. (Not an easy task!) So by going to the district model, it has helped us to raise our game and the incentive to make a better program.

Cudos to the distinguished list of people that worked long hours to come up with a points model that is pretty darn good.