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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
You're evaluating the district ranking system from the completely wrong perspective. The point of the ranking system isn't to assess who's #1. The ranking system is designed to have value at the cut-off for the district championship, and there's where the point allocation matters most. Instead of attempting to further validate your own team's achievements based on what you determine to be important or difficult, how about you review the extensive documentation explaining the logic behind the ranking system?
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Moving to a graduated level of points for elimination victories does not affect the top of the top, it affects the middle to lower top. The top in any district will have won their first two districts. At that point, the differentiation comes from qualification wins and awards. What it does change is it provides differentiation between a team that is a finalist at both districts vs a team that wins 1 district and is semifinalist at their other. Which is better? What about a team that is semifinalist at both events, vs Finalist and Quarter Finalist?
Do not treat Vex and FLL as inferior because they may not get as much exposure as FRC on these boards. Just remember, FLL has seven times more teams than FRC from twenty additional countries. - artdutra04 [more] 
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