[NE FIRST] District Championship point cutoff

[MikeE]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

They are "scored" in a sense. However, they don't count towards qualifying. However, those teams are 'taking points' from teams that they could count for effectively removing points from the overall system. A good team competing at 3+ event acts as a sponge concentrating points to them and lowering the threshold for everyone. (Those points are effectively lost)

While a team competing in it's 3rd/4th event is likely reducing the points available to the teams at that event, it also has the effect of decreasing the cutoff threshold for district championships so it benefits teams not at that event.

So from a purely strategic point of view a team should go to the earliest and smallest events possible, all other things being equal.